Pennsylvania: 8 Questions, 5 Things to Watch

The questions are posed by the WaPo’s Dan Balz.

The things to watch are outlined by Carrie Budoff Brown and Kenneth Vogel at Politico. Number two on their list:

Don’t be fooled by early results. The cities and suburbs usually report their returns first, which gives the candidate favored in those areas a quick — and sometimes fleeting — lead. The conservative-leaning small towns through the center of the state usually filter in much later in the evening.

… So Obama could show a lead in the early results, but it might be short-lived. If Clinton is ahead at the start, she may never lose it.

(That rule — cities and ‘burbs first, small towns second — might seem obvious, but in Missouri, at least in the 2006 mid-terms and the 2008 primary, the sequence tended to be just the opposite: Kansas City and St. Louis and their respective ‘burbs trickled in the latest, mitigating and sometimes reversing the small-town vote.)