The Year of the Pennsylvania Republican could be 2012.
That year was 2010. Obama would have to lose Pennsylvania for Casey to come anywhere close to losing and that just isnt possible in a Presidential year with the Philly Dem machine turning out 600,000 votes for Democrats.
Yeah, Obama couldn't possibly get more unpopular to offset Democratic turnout and the Dems will always have insane turnout. 
11 points. Obama won by 11 points. Pennsylvania is not a purple state.
Still living in 2008, eh? Beautiful. Only helps my side. Just a quick reminder...
Victories for the PA GOP in 2010: U.S. Senator, Governor/Lt. Governor, Five Congressional seats to take a 12-7 lead in the delegation, kept the 30-20 margin in the State Senate, net pick up of thirteen seats in the State House to take a 112-91 majority (largest ever for any party in decades).
We also hold the Attorney General spot.
Dems now hold a U.S. Senate seat, the Auditor General and State Treasurer spots.
Yeah, definitely a solid Dem state.
CT has gone 20 years without a Democratic governor. Another purple state I presume?
In the best Republican year for decades, with the Republicans united behind a candidate, on the tails of a bruising democratic primary, with a disillusioned liberal base and with a pathetic turnout in Philly - the Republican won by 3 points. A similar margin in IL, another notorious purple state presumably.
John Kerry won PA while losing the election. Al Gore won PA while 'losing' the election. Obama stormed home in PA despite the protestations of a teenage self-proclaimed PA intheknow political expert that catholics and poor whites and union members wouldn't vote black. He won it by 11 points.
I realise there's no point arguing with you as you're stubborn. I also realise there's no point highlighting the hypocrisy of you ridiculing the comparison of 2008 (a presidential election) to 2012 (a presidential election) while simultaneously bringing up 2010 (not a presidential election) because you're also rather thick. So I'll leave you to it and instead I'll look up this thread in 2 years time to bump to chuckle in how yet again you've embarrassed yourself in a thread about Pennsylvania elections.
