In 2010 - Pennsylvania elected in Republican governor, Republican Senator and both houses in Harrisburg went Republican for the first time in 30 years.
Philadelphia democrats have been neutered and they have no friends in Harrisburg anymore to bring home the graft. Their “big guns” are dead, retired or in jail.
No one on Bucks County (liberal white) likes obama much anymore.
I just wish the Republicans would do a Walker and free the state workers from bring FORCED to join a public union as a condition of employment.
It seems to me that in the past 2-3 years the “bench” for the democrats has gotten pretty thin. They have no one to run in a lot of places. Look at the woman in this article they have “selected” to run. I almost feel sorry for her.
Look at what they re-ran against Scott Walker.
Here in Michigan all they could run on their side was a guy who proudly claimed to be “the angriest mayor in America”, (he was the Mayor of Lansing, which is nothing to crow about).
The woman here they picked to run on their side for S.O.S. was a law professor, with not much if any political experience. And they all lost.
Republicans had majority control of both chambers of the PA legislature from 1995-2006.