Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Pennsylvania's 2008 Presidential Election

Facts
1. Obama won decisively in Philadelphia and did well in its suburbs.
2. Obama's victory marked the fifth straight presidential election in which the Democrats carried Pennsylvania.
3. With 96% of precincts reporting, Obama had 2,988,473 votes, or 55%, and McCain had 2,399,080, or 44%.
4. McCain spent nearly three times as many days campaigning in Pennsylvania as Obama.
5. Democrats now outnumber Republicans by more than 1 million in a state that last chose a Republican for president when it supported George H. Bush in 1988.

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