Analysis: Trump's Road To White House Went Through Pa.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Donald Trump's road to the White House went through Pennsylvania, and the state clearly delivered for the Republican in one of the nastiest and hardest-fought presidential battles the state has witnessed.
In the end, the key for Trump was larger-than-expected turnout, especially among white Democratic males who, coupled with traditional Republican voters across the state, gave Trump a 75,000-plus vote margin.
Compared to 2012, some 200,000 more Pennsylvanians turned out to vote this year, bringing the total number of voters to just under 6 million.
Hillary Clinton did well in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburban counties, and she actually did better than Barack Obama in Allegheny County. But, she lost all but 11 of the state's 67 counties, including traditionally Democratic counties around Pittsburgh by big numbers.
Take Fayette County. Four years ago, Mitt Romney carried this white working class Democratic county over Obama by 4,000 votes. Trump beat Clinton there by 16,500 votes.
It was similar in most of the western Pennsylvania counties, where Trump exceeded Romney's vote bigtime.
Trump's message of change simply overpowered Clinton's embrace of the Obama legacy, and maintains Pennsylvania's tradition of voting with the winner once again.
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