2016 Postmortem

The party registration numbers are available on the Dept of State website. I pulled them and did a little comparison between votes and registration. One thing to note is that there were significantly more voters who changed their party registration to R than to D (PA has closed primaries) prior to the election.

I know in my precinct, which is heavily R, voters were out in droves. From other posters here who live in PA, the story was the same. Looking at the numbers, Dem votes were in the 40s and 50s as a percent of Dem registration in the small counties, but R votes were in the 80s and up as a percent of their registration. Philadelphia turnout was in the 60s. Had it matched the turnout in the small, rural counties, Clinton would have carried the state.