The PA election return page shows 791,900 total votes cast for a GOP candidate. Obama received 1,030,703 and Clinton got 1,238,232.
I was just perusing Pennsylvania's election return page, http://www.electionreturns.state.pa....
clicking on individual counties to see what their numbers were and found myself surprised by the numbers of votes cast for each party. In Luzerne county, e.g., Obama got 15,975 and Clinton got 48,075. On the GOP side, Paul got 3061, McCain got 13,390 and Huckabee got 1872. Each GOP candidate got substantially fewer votes than either Democratic candidate. Each Democratic candidate got more votes cast than the presumptive GOP nominee, McCain. More to the point, I think, is that the Democratic party received way more votes cast than the GOP.
The results I observed encouraged me to look at the state in total. Those numbers, shown in the intro, make me wonder why the pundit class continues to question whether Obama would do well enough in states that Clinton won and vice versa. If Luzerne county shows 64,050 Democratic votes cast and only 18,324 votes cast by Republicans, if Pennsylvania itself shows more Democratic than Republican votes by a 2,268,935 to 791,900 margin, how could this result be anything but positive for the Democratic party?
How, indeed, unless race trumps self-interest again, as it has in elections in this country for a long while or unless the media pundits have more interest in continuing a ratings-generating but artificial nomination fight. Why should, for example, love of country on the part of the pundits come into play when some of their media owners are not American and could have a different agenda?
I'm an Obama supporter. Go Obama! I'm also a Democrat. Go Donkeys! Let's not allow the self-serving opinions of pundits, who crave controversy like a crack addict craves his next rock, like a few GOP'ers crave their next bathroom stall encounter, over-confuse the issue! Eschew intentional obfuscation! Punish political prestidigitation! Have those talking heads speak plainly, clearly and with facts.