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03 November 2004 

The paper shows a map of how Penn’s Woods voted by county. Looks like “the T” held up with a little spread on the serifs and the usual turnout in the urban zones – Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Erie, & Scranton carried the state for Kerry. As mentioned in an earlier post “the T” is a cluster of counties across the northern tier of the state combining with a cluster of counties running north/south to form a solidly conservative and thus mostly Republican core to the Commonwealth.

This makes me think back to a class at Penn State where the issue of Pennsylvania: Model for a Nation was vigorously and thoroughly debated. If one compares a map of the Commonwealth’s red & blue counties to a map of the United States one would see a similar red & blue pattern. This comparison holds up favorably when one considers that the blue areas in both would be considered urban compared to the suburban/rural nature of the red areas.

Analyst Cokie Roberts noted this morning on NPR that only one in ten of citizens between the ages of 18 and 24 years voted yesterday. So much for the groundswell.

11/03/2004 07:40:00 AM |

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