How Joe Biden won Pennsylvania

[brooklynite]

Philadelphia Inquirer

From the first days of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden made it clear that winning back Pennsylvania was central to his strategy for winning the White House.

He held his first big event at a Teamsters union hall in Pittsburgh and staged an early rally in Philadelphia. He campaigned in Pennsylvania more than any other state, visiting not just the deeply Democratic cities, but also postindustrial areas around Johnstown and his native Scranton, where white working-class voters had shunned Democrats for Donald Trump.

It was close, but it paid off. He narrowly won Pennsylvania, which sealed his national victory and made him president-elect. Biden led the state by about 37,000 votes Saturday, an edge of less than 1 percentage point. In a state decided by such small margins in 2016 and again this year, an array of factors combined to create the outcome.

Take any of them out, and Trump might have won again.

[kwolf68]

1. PA

And as I recall the networks decided to announce Biden right after a small data dump from Allegheny County (where I live) came in. So like I told my wife, WE PUSHED HIM OVER. Obviously, that was more of a timing thing, because Philly was soon coming, but it was still a cool symbolic reality that right after vote counts from my county came in Joe Biden had been elected.

During last night we read a lot about Joe and what he has gone through, learning who his family (both living and no longer living) were and after reading how much he has had to overcome then listening to his PRESIDENTIAL speech it was pretty hard to not tear up.

The dude is a freaking fighter. More man than the Orange Fecal Matter ever would dream to be.

[Cha]

4. Thank you for Allegheny County, kwolf!

& your post.. interesting to me.

My son was born in Philly many moons ago while we were on vacation so I'll always love Philly!

[magicarpet]

2. How anyone on the planet considers them even remotely comparable is astounding.

Half of AmeriKKKa has Nazi/Fascist tendencies. They wear it as a badge of honor and source of pride. Fuck thems Nazi jackbooted gestapo Fascist Racists.

[Cha]

3. Will ya look at this.. " But the suburbs delivered Biden's biggest gains.

“People came out in droves to vote ‘yes’ for decency and to reject the indecency of this president,” said U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, a Montgomery County Democrat who was part of a wave of women elected to Congress in 2018.

Thank you, PA for the WIN!!