The upset win of a Democrat in a Pennsylvania state Senate district considered solid “Trump country” was big news Tuesday throughout the Keystone State — not to mention much of the national media.

Following another special election in January in which a Democrat captured an Iowa state Senate seat formerly considered safe Republican, the upset victory of Democrat James Malone in the historically Republican 36th District (Lancaster County) has fueled talk of a revolt at the local level against the president who has been in office just over two months.

But a careful scrutiny of the Pennsylvania outcome shows it to be neither as dramatic as some in the press make it out to be, nor a harbinger of a coming national trend.

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