Blunt as ever, Gov. Rendell offered what, for fellow Democrats, was a rather downbeat view of the election this fall to replace him.

“Tom Corbett starts with a significant advantage,” Rendell said Wednesday, referring to the attorney general’s well-established identity among voters as a twice-elected statewide official.

On the day after the party primaries – in which Corbett won the GOP nomination for governor and Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato won the Democratic nod – that was the view of many other political analysts as well.

But not so fast, others said. This is still Pennsylvania, a state that has leaned more and more blue in recent years.

The state’s 4.3 million registered Democrats need only to turn out in relatively proportionate numbers to swamp the 3.1 million Republicans on the rolls.

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