With PA next, I wanted to dive into analysis of the suburbs but wanted to call further attention to the fight in Philly since a lot of people have done some eye rolling at my comments about Philly being good for Rick.
When you can, check out
analyzethevote.com/map. That's the new and totally awesome (for political nerds) website out together by our new Commissioners. It's been a very long time coming! Anyway, this feature will allow people to see how heavily concentrated the GOP vote is in the NE, South Philly and Roxborough (Northwest). Those areas only have 18 of our 66 Wards but that's where the Republican vote power lies and with the exception of maybe Roxborough and a Ward or two in the NE, that's where Santorum will run up nice margins. Mitt will still benefit from the Center City Wards and their high raw number of Republicans but, as you'll see, that won't match the other areas. He will need to make serious inroads in the NE and South Philly and really turn out the vote downtown to have a chance of taking the city.
Anyway, enjoy the feature and stay tuned for my suburban ramblings.
