Democrat Conor Lamb declares victory in Pennsylvania race

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...declares-victory-in-pa-special-election-upset

Looks like we don't really have a thread on this momentous event.

In a heavily-fought special election, Conor Lamb beat Republican right-winger and Trump supporter in an election that will likely be used as a blueprint for future victories in reddish areas.

Democrats are overjoyed because this election was seen as an extremely important gauge for the big show in November.

Republicans are EXTREMELY upset because even with their MASSIVE unConstitutional gerrymandering (as declared by the PA Supreme Court) wasn't enough to hold off the continuing blue wave.



Their canary in the mine has died.

As the map shows the anti-Democracy Republicans redrew the map to take control away from Pennsylvanian voters. This has been addressed and the PA Supreme Court tossed out the RNC unconstitutional gerrymandering and a new map will be used in November. This new map more fairly allocates the districts and could see the DNC picking up as many as 5 additional seats which no doubt infuriates the RNC because they might actually have to listen to the constituents that elect them as opposed to getting to choose the constituents that they want to vote.

Note: Pa District is considerably changed in the new map for November and is primarily constituted of Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas. Pittsburgh hasn't had elected a Russo-publican for mayor or on City Council since 1933. You can understand why the RNC felt the need to suppress the votes of the citizens of Pittsburgh.

In addition to Succone-supporting outside groups outspending (inspending?) Lamb-supporting groups by a measure of 5-1, the Republicans were unable to hold this red district that saw Trump win in 2016 by 20 points.




Not so surprisingly, Trump invested a lot of his waning political capital in this race visting this area not once but at least twice allegedly in order to campaign for Saccoon; of course, Trump as is usual for Trump turned it into an opportunity to talk about Trump.



I for one can't understand why that didn't winn the district over...

They even got a visit from Junior; I mean if this guy can't help you pull a win off





Then it's certainly not Uday Trump's fault, amirite?

Of course, the results haven't been certified as lawyers descend on this race that saw an important flip of a national seat. Hopefully Lamb will be declared the winner in this tight race that should've been a cakewalk for the Republican'ts.

Perhaps most important of all...



Oh yeah, the main concern expressed by the voters in this district: Healthcare.

Think about that for a bit.

The Blue Wave is real and the RNC is understandably freaking out about it.

As voters continually push for the right to actually vote for their politicians as opposed to their politicians choosing their voters, the Republican Party will have to take a look at their waning support and reconsider their positions on a number of issues. Nah, just kidding. We all know they will stick with their standard game plan of cheating, suppressing votes, and trying to wash facts with a deluge of right-wing bullshit.

 

In addition to the $10.8 million spent by outsiders to get Saccone elected, Donald Trump and his hair-helmet son made a personal campaign visit to help out.

Using TrumpMath™, that's at least another billion outside dollars spent on the Saccone campaign.

 

A massive Republican margin wiped out by Trump in just one year. One year!

Sad.

 

where going to rebound in midterm you just wait cross eyed kat see its all about the energy

 

wow thats impressive kill a mean a+s full charging elephant with only a buck knife

 

So I guess this means that gerrymandering doesn't actually affect anything.

Good to know that this liberal talking point has been crushed.

 

Spooky engages in her general fallacy of unsupported statement as truth without facts or evidence to back it up.

 

Every time a democrat wins an election, globalist oligarchs take a little more control of America. A sad day for citizens.

 

That's an idiotic way of looking at it.

In 2016: "In 2016, Democrats won each of their five House seats with an average of 75 percent of the vote, while Republicans' margin of victory was an average of 62 percent across their 13 districts."

This is the reason the map was ordered redrawn by the PA Supreme Court. I realize that the RNC politics are so completely flaccid that they have a hard time winning when the playing field is leveled. It's the GOP's "party over country" that leads them to be some anti-Democracy.

Expect to see more RNC retirements as the Republicrats skitter off the beach in order to avoid the Blue Wave.

 

The globalist oligarchs are in control of the White House. We're just planning on doing a bit of fumigating.

 

Actually electoral outcomes have no impact on that at all. The Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class always has it covered "either" way.

 

Lamb ran as a conservative. He was getting killed in the polls before he starting promoting his pro 2nd amendment stance, his anti abortion stance, and his military background. Stupid people fell for it, but that's why he was elected. Plus, Saccone was a bad candidate. As a hard core conservative, I actually think Lamb may be ok.

 

Glad that you agree.

 

Keep telling yerself nonsense, boyo. If the blue take the House and Senate this fall, liberal Trump will happily sign their legislation in order to not be impeached.

 

Lamb is not a "democrat". He embraces Republican values and would never have been survived a D primary race. And of course the district will disappear next fall.

 

Lamb would never have survived a Democratic Primary. He is too far to the middle for the illiberal regressives.

 

The country needs more right leaning D's and Left leaning R's.

 

Since there wasn't a primary, we won't ever know for sure if Lamb would have survived or not. However, running moderates seems to be a winning strategy in a system that has been polarized by the extremes of both parties. That Trump won that same district by 20 points shows a big shift among voters, and maybe they are shifting towards a more moderate political stance. They certainly didn't stand for the status quo. With the tax cut, incumbent Republicans cannot market themselves as moderates, or even conservatives.

Lamb's win, against moneyed interests, gerrymandering, and the inertia of a district that was solid Republican for years, is impressive politically. It portends a bellwether for November, IMO.

 

He's a left-leaning moderate. Pro-choice and pro-union. You can tell that he's not a Republican because there's no indication that he supports Putin over America or that he thinks that 30+ year old men sleeping/marrying 16 year olds is just "God's way".

 

Republicans are supply side economics advocates for economic growth.

 

Hilarious.

 

In Swing Districts the Dems should run Moderates.

That is an easy lesson to gather from PA-18.

 

I'm sure some are, but not all. Is it your opinion that stock buybacks are growing the economy, or economic stagnation? Most of the tax cut has gone to stock buybacks.

 

But the DNC won't be picking the D candidates. If BLM has anything to do with the selection "all lives matter" will be considered racism test for any D candidate.