No, this has nothing to do with 2016! Steven Spatz' BookBaby site is always informative, and this time he had a link to an National Public Radio interview with Robert Strauss, author of a James Buchanan biography.
Pennsylvania only produced one president (Winfield S. Hancock ran in 1880 and would have been a good one, but he lost to James A. Garfield). James Buchanan was elected in 1856, and allowed things to deteriorate enough to make the Civil War inevitable. Maybe that soured people on the Keystone State as a breeding ground for presidents.
I take some comfort that my family immigrated well after Buchanan ran, so that none of us supported him.
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/15/498056608/-worst-president-ever-one-author-says-this-title-goes-to-james-buchanan
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