Generations of Pennsylvanians remembered when it WAS a great state.
It can be great again.
I sum up the problem the Dems had in the midwest (Pennsylvania west of the Susquehanna is culturally part of the midwest) as most of it saw no recovery, and found the claims of one to be insulting or a sign of disconnect, or they had a recovery and viewed it as in spite of Dem policies as it was due to fracking.