Will a Pennsylvania Scandal Disrupt Media's Coronation of Obama? By Peter J. Wirs
Will the national news media provide balanced coverage of the Democrats and Obama and the Republicans and McCain this year? To answer we start with two premises, then toss in the wild card.
Premise One: Pennsylvania’s 21 Electoral votes are no longer solid Red. It is one of the states the Democrats must win, but which the GOP, if push came to shove, could do without. Traditionally, Pennsylvania’s politics as memorialized by James Carville, is the two islands of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh surrounded by Alabama. A recent shift of Philadelphia’s bedroom suburban counties from Republican to Democratic now tilts Pennsylvania from Purple to Blue.
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