[Lurkinanloomin]

Pennsyltucky finally outvoted the corruption in Philly and Pittsburgh.

[Mechanicos]

Simple, they miscalculated the amount of vote fraud they would need.

Hopefully, the Trump admin makes cleaning up the rigged election system a priority.

[meyer]

Interesting breakdown. Seems that 2 groups went hard democrat - deadbeats and elite educrats. Everyone else leaned towards Trump.

[Uncle Miltie]

My Theory is that the War On Coal lost Democrats Pennsylvania:

[wright2bear]

In a nutshell, I know the margin of victory looks small, but think of it this way. In 2008 the dems carried PA by ~600K votes and 2012 by ~300K votes.

In 8 years, Republicans made a ~640K turnaround in votes. Hopefully in 2018, we'll win by an even larger margin, and the trend continues.

[arthurus]

The pols in Pittsburg and Philly misjudged how many votes they needed to manufacture. That is the main reason.

[Sacajaweau]

Coal and steel and unions.....Hillary made a serious mistake. (No coal for you)

Generations of Pennsylvanians remembered when it WAS a great state.

It can be great again.

[jimbug]

I live in Pa, and on election night I told me wife this: there aren’t enough minorities in Pittsburgh and Philly to overcome the rest of us who are totally pissed off.

[Steven Scharf]

Excellent analysis, but I disagree with one concept the article postulated.

“So just why were there so many voters who switched from Barack Obama to Donald Trump?”

I don’t think there were many people who went from Obama to Trump. It is more likely that people who did not vote in 2008 and 2012 voted in 2016 and vice versa. They are a different set of people. We know both candidates brought lots of new voters out.

[lightman]

Ping...follow the link to see our County finally receiving some long-overdue credit.

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. HOORAY Pennsylvanians (I knew it was over when the Keystone state went for Trump) In fact I bought myself a celebratory shot that night in a Vegas casino.

Thanks, Pennsylvanians. WOOOHOOOO!