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Pennsylvania has been with Democrats from way back This has been once again confirmed in the presidential polls of 2008. There has been no change whatsoever in the minds of the voters about whom to be selected but Obama’s offer to ‘change’ has stuck with them. Pennsylvania election results have given Mr Barack Obama 21 electoral votes in his race for presidency.
With a registered voter population of 8.73 million, from the outset Pennsylvania was predicted to favor Senator Obama heavily. Barack Obama started his campaign with a head start of anything between 4 to 14 over his rival Senator John McCain. However, in the end, Pennsylvania election results helped Barack Obama emerge as the 5tth consecutive Democrat winner in the run for president in Pennsylvania in the presidential elections of the USA.
Even though Mr McCain anticipated sturdy backing from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Mr Obama upstaged him and secured support from those areas. Mr Obama was able to get these votes even though Mr McCain made a last ditch struggle at the fag end of his campaigning. However, Pennsylvania election results confirmed that John McCain prevailed in Central and Northern Pennsylvania.
It is evident that the contenders had split the votes of whites between them. However, it seems a different story when it comes to the votes of the blacks and the Hispanics Based on the surveys carried out after the Pennsylvania election results were announced, it could be safely argued that the blacks and Hispanics were overwhelmingly supportive of Senator Barack Obama. The very reason of Barack Obama being an African American vouches for the fact that blacks and Hispanics wanted to see a black American as the next president.
The population of multiracial Pennsylvania went gaga over the victory of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate defeating republican John McCain. People converged on the city Hall following the declaration of Mr Obama’s victory according to the Pennsylvania election results. People from all professions, in all age brackets, and from all over Pennsylvania gathered in large numbers to rejoice over the triumph of their president elect, not caring anything about the light rain that fell in a carefree mood.