Manmademan
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If you're not from PA, you may not realize how the media markets work. how many "hours" it takes to get across the state isn't the point (and for the record, it's about 5 hours in Good traffic) but how the media coverage is segmented.
The philadelphia media market is incredibly expensive, since it covers the southern half of jersey and all of delaware. As such, as an eastern PA resident you will never actually see any advertising or coverage directed at the middle or western half of the state, period. Philadelphia itself is so ridiculous that local council and mayoral politics are considered more important than state level politics- the mayoral election is more important than the governor or senate races here, much less the state house and senate. Ohio may as well be on the west coast, as often as you hear about anything happening there.
The pittsburgh market (which bleeds into ohio) is a completely separate entity. Visits and events that happen there are rarely if ever mentioned on the eastern half of the state.
On top of that, the harrisburg and central PA market is covered by some stations that are in the washington DC metro area, so news and events which happen on the eastern and western half of the state compete for coverage with events going on in the capitol.
Comparing it to a big midwestern state where there isn't shit going in is lunacy.
