[Shethink13]

You obviously missed my point. I was responding to a poster who suggested that Toomey only won because of Trump's "coattails" in Pennsylvania.

You're not winning on another candidate's "coattails" if you attract different voters than he did.

I understood your point completely. You said that Toomey won because of a different demographic and also stated that the rural dems who voted for Trump didn't vote for Toomey. But you can't possibly know that, can you?

Mariner merely suggested the coattails. You, on the other hand, reject the possibility without fact or local perspective.

[Alberta's Child]

Every point I've made about the 2016 election results in Pennsylvania is based on a very detailed analysis of the Trump and Toomey victories that was published some weeks after the election and posted right here on FreeRepublic. I was following Salena Zito's reporting on the 2016 campaign long before most people here probably even heard of her.

The "facts" and "local perspective" suggest that it is far more likely that Trump won on Toomey's coattails, not vice versa. Trump was running as the Republican nominee in a state that hadn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate in decades. Toomey was running as the incumbent U.S. Senator.