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i assume Obama is going to win, so this isn't anything really on topic, but, decades ago, i was a boy in the back seat of my father's car getting car sick and we'd pass Wilkes Barre on route 80. sometimes we'd get off there to get something to eat, sometimes we'd go further, to scranton. my memory is dusty but it seemed to me that wilkes-barre was somehow dingier than scranton, (i hope you don't find that insulting). but from your description, scranton is far worse now (neither were "ghost-towns"). is that true? as i said, i was young and it was decades ago, all i remember were gray skies and houses, lots of houses.
