Allegheny County Results

[livetohike]

Very interesting. Most of the steel towns went for Obama :-). Braddock, where the Edgar Thompson works are went for Obama. Also, look at the city of Pgh tallies.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08112/871438-457.stm

[benfranklin1776]

1. Yes that is a positive

Something to build on for the fall. :-) Disappointed though in Beaver and Lawrence Counties, formerly heavily industrialized counties, decimated by Reagan/Bush policies and NAFTA. I thought they would be ready for a change by now. Well there is still time.

[livetohike]

4. Just a little more time......

It will be okay in the Fall :-).

[benfranklin1776]

5. I think you are right.

Certainly I think we all in Western Pa. here have had enough of any candidate remotely resembling a Bush and certainly have reached a maximum level of disgust with the destruction of our national economy and the rot caused by Raygun/Bushonomics; thus John McBush running his "Give W a third term by voting for me" camapaign will be as well received as raw sewage in the Fountain at Point State Park. :-)

[RamboLiberal]

2. My hometown of McKeesport went 8% for Hillary but

I'd love to stuff it in the face of Dana Milbank who did a driveby portrait of McKeesport as ignorant racists. We were under the state win for her and there was only a difference of around 400 votes with 5300 cast. Since there are also a lot of elderly as well as a very mixed race of poor and lower-middle class I thought it a very fair rep of how the vote went.

Here's the Milbank hit job!

It is, in short, just the sort of place Barack Obama was talking about when he said he wasn't getting the support of blue-collar workers of the industrial heartland because they "cling" to guns and religion out of economic bitterness. It is also the place Obama chose to visit on Monday night, on the eve of Tuesday's primary -- and the reception here explains why Obama, the national front-runner, is expected to lose Pennsylvania.

"I don't care too much for Obama," Maria Norgren, the daughter and granddaughter of steelworkers, said in the parking lot of the Giant Eagle shopping center here, near the Obama rally.

"I don't even think he's American," added her husband, Edward, who lost his job when the steel mills closed and now mans the counter at the Puff Discount Tobacco and Lottery shop next to the Giant Eagle.

"His father's from Nigeria, right?" asked Maria, wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers T-shirt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102794.html

[livetohike]

3. Oh geez......

:eyes:

I worked in McKeesport in 1999-2000 during the Census. I had to speak to many retired steelworkers' groups in the whole Pgh. area and met many people. As the daughter and granddaughter of steelworkers (E.T. in Braddock), I felt a bond with all the retirees....

McKeesport was/is a great place filled with wonderful people :-). Despite this article.

[bluestateguy]

6. I noticed that Fox Chapel voted for Obama

A lot of money there, if I'm not mistaken.