Exactly. It is ridiculous how these knuckleheads can’t look at data.
I was curious myself how PA flipped in the days after the election....so I looked up the county results and compared them with 2012 and 2008.
Hillary did not bad at all in Philly...it’s just Trump shellacked her in the rural PA counties. He was pulling numbers in these counties that blew McCain and Romney out of the water. And if I remember right, it didn’t come at the expense of the Dem vote that much.
Doesn’t seem to me the marginal areas like Luzerne or Monroe or Bucks really did it for Trump. Trump took a rural base that went red but typically didn’t show up on election day....and made it so deep, deep red that it swamped the Dem vote of Philly and the marginal areas.
Nice post, from a fellow Westmoreland County resident.
Luzerne was the biggest flip from ‘12 to ‘16.
Trump won Carbon County where I live. The Times News of Lehighton ran a story a few weeks ago, registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats for the first time ever.
I think when Democrats loose the both the soft and hard coal regions then it’s basically over as far as the working man is concerned.