[rogers21774]

What? It's barely 8:30 am and someone is already calling rural PA for Bush? Get a grip people. It's a long day. Besides, even if all of rural PA voted 100% for Bush, it won't be easy to overcome the heavy dem stronholds of Philly and Pittsburg.

[djf]

Yup. We won' know nuthin till the large metropolitan area returns start coming in. That means 6-10 PM, west coast time. So everybody oughta just cool their jets for a while.

[devnull]

I was up early putting Bush signs up an'at. I noticed a large amount of Kerry signs at the local voting pole. Those Jagoffs are worried. My wife and I will be passing out Clymer pamphlets for those truly undecided.

[Big E]

Agreed. I am also from PA, I voted this morning, turnout was higher than ever in my 60/40 Republican township, but that still doesn't mean Bush is carrying PA. I would expect that the Democrats are going to turnout as well. We'll see. I have a list of 10 names of Bush voters who I will contact around noon to ensure they vote.

[Fed_up_in_PA]

"Besides, even if all of rural PA voted 100% for Bush, it won't be easy to overcome the heavy dem stronholds of Philly and Pittsburg."

Not really. Pennsylvania has a population of a little over 12.3 Million. The Philadelphia metro region (including a number of conservative suburbs) is a little over 5 Million, but over a million of that is in New Jersey. The Pittsburgh metro region is around 2 Million, also includes a number of strong conservative suburbs, and in fact often supports republican candidates (the city of Pittsburgh itself - heavily Democratic - has less than 400k).

Net - over half of Pennsylvania is in much smaller towns and rural areas, and if turnout in those areas is extremely high, Kerry should go down in flames.