I’d like to commend your attention to a post from Shaun Mullen about the new front in the campaigns for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Pennsylvania:
I had wanted to wait until we got a little closer to the Pennsylvania primary on April 22 to discuss and diss a state in which I have lived, worked and traveled at various times for many years, but the mainstream media will soon be encamping there and I should get in my two cent’s worth before Wolf Blitzer starts interviewing shy Amish folk, brawny coal miners and flatulent cows.
The conventional wisdom is that the Keystone State is tailor made for Hillary Clinton.
This is because it has droves of blue-collar workers, an elderly population second only to Florida and a Democrats-only primary that does not allow same-day registration.
And you can bet that the oft mangled and misattributed observation by political guru James Carville that the state consists of Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburgh in the west and everything in between is Mississippi will be trotted out time and again.
But the CW has been taking a beating this election year and will again in Pennsylvania, and anyone who thinks that Clinton has the upper hand over Barack Obama is ignoring a few things…
Read the whole thing.
Pennsylvania resident and journalist Callimachus quips in comments on his own blog:
Before the next six weeks are over, every single resident of Pennsylvania will have been interviewed at least once.
From what I’ve heard, Pennsylvania is older, whiter and less educated than Ohio.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I’m older, whiter and less educated than many.