But the party she may be destroying is the state GOP, which is watching as hundreds of thousands of voters switch party registrations to the Democrats. Since the year began, the state has recorded 102,113 new voters who registered as Democrats and 132,688 previously registered voters switching to the Dems.

In addition to swelling the voter rolls, having two candidates criss-cross Pennsylvania has allowed our usually ignored citizenry to hear the candidates and let the candidates hear them. It's also a very good thing for the national media to discover that real people live between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.