I am very proud of Pennsylvania. I have not always been so. I would not have been had 81,000 votes gone differently two weeks ago.

I have heard Pennsylvania pronounced so often in the past couple of months that I hear a tinkle in it now that I had never heard before, a light, soft, vowel-y, music-y sound, like a small stream tumbling over stones. Penn-syl-van-i-a. It’s a beautiful word.