There was no Likely rating back in those days just lean or Safe so that Lean PA rating was really a Likely PA but even then by election day that rating would have been ridiculous and it should have been treated as Safe D. Ironically only one news organization/polling organization thought PA was Safe R and it was Rasmussen
There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:
D.C. Political Report: Democrat[37]
Cook Political Report: Leaning Democrat[38]
Takeaway: Leaning Obama[39]
Electoral-vote.com: Leaning Democrat[40]
The Washington Post: Leaning Obama[41]
Politico: Leaning Obama[42]
Real Clear Politics: Leaning Obama[43]
FiveThirtyEight.com: Leaning Obama[41]
CQ Politics: Leaning Democrat[44]
The New York Times: Leaning Democrat[45]
CNN: Leaning Democrat[46]
NPR: Leaning Obama[41]
MSNBC: Leaning Obama[41]
Fox News: Democrat[47]
Associated Press: Democrat[48]
Rasmussen Reports: Safe Democrat[49]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania
