I think that is more about the senate.
They clearly have the capacity to game elections at the sub state level - rigging districts at the state and congressional level in a way to portion out the majority of left leaning folks into a smaller number of districts and spread the Rs out enough to be able to win more congressional and state districts than they should.
They then take advantage of their gerrymandering in big "swing" states where they have majority control to put up voter ID laws, and also in any state it works to get things like gay marriage or abortion on the ballot to get their turnout.
Their "problem" is any election at the state level or national, they can't game.
Pa is a left leaning swing state.
They have bizarre majorities in congress and at the state level that are far out of proportion to the number of actual d v r voters.
But, Pa has gone to the democrat in the presidential elections over two decades now, by increasingly bigger margins.
We do elect a R governor every other governor in this bizarre way the state feels compelled to play some D, R, D R thing.
And, we will elect and R senator.
The example is Pat Toomey. He BARELY beat a darn fine democrat in Joe Sestak in the huge R wave in 2010.
Toomey is a smarmy, K street/wall street sucking POS.
BUT, he is a Rove type - a button up, not say what he actually wants to do, and definitely not say anything crazy about abortion type.
In a wave election, he snuck past Sestak.
Two years after Santorum, a fire breathing, spout whatever crazyness pops into his deranged mind lunatic, got curb stomped by Bob Casey.
IF one of these clowns who can't help what comes out of their mouths like Todd Akin had beat Toomey in the primary, even in 2010, he/she never would have beaten Sestak.
They are just trying to control who gets past the primary in the senate races more than anything.
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