Maybe the Pubs will figure out that a thump rally right before voting day is no longer a sure thing.
The Washington Post has a good article on this race :
Well, let’s see how they’ll try:
Corry Bliss, the executive director of CLF, which paid for door knockers starting in the first week of January, put the blame squarely on Saccone’s shoulders.
Bliss called Saccone, a four-term state legislator with a long military and academic résumé, “a joke.”
Yep. Loser Saccone lost to Lamb. SAD!
And, of course, there’s the usual chuntering:
“We are waiting for provisional ballots to be counted. We are not ruling out a recount,” said Jesse Hunt, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. A person familiar with the process said party officials were looking at potential irregularities and legal action they could take.
Finally, the voter interviews, which don’t say a whole lot new:
Several voters who said they were Republicans cast their ballots for Lamb — and against the president.
After casting her vote in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, dental hygienist Janet Dellana said she had been outraged to see Trump call for arming teachers instead of limiting access to semiautomatic weapons after the deadly school shooting in Florida.
“He flip-flops on everything, but in the end, he caters to the extreme right,” said Dellana, 64. “I am a registered Republican, but as this party continues to cater to the extreme right, they push me left.”
When come back, bring pi.
JohnT
March 14, 2018, 3:40pm
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pdhenry:
The big cluster is in PA14 (i.e., Pittsburgh proper). There’s only a couple of mills in the 18th.
(I mean, the districts are on the map…)
ETA: This wouldn’t sufficient to flip PA14 to Red.
I didn’t state it was an effective strategy. Hell, Trump could have watched All the Right Moves and decided he was going to save the steel mill in the movie by raising tariffs. With this guy, that’s only slightly less plausible than “reasoned political strategy”.
Which isn’t plausible at all, so there we have it.
I don’t think most of us ever thought it was “a sure thing”. Where did you get the impression we did?
I see this and first thought is “great” – but then, I think, “Well, why didn’t you vote for Hillary, then??! Arrgh!”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/20180310_ap_3c99f0c0cbc248dbac2c795890caf84c.html
And of course it would had been more likely to be if Trump had bothered to just help a candidate and not to just continue telling Philadelphia and the rest of America that we need to divide America more.
(CNN) – President Donald Trump traveled to western Pennsylvania Saturday night on a rescue mission: State Rep. Rick Saccone (R) is fighting for his political life in a House special election on Tuesday and the President’s visit was aimed at rallying the GOP base in a district he won by 20 points in 2016.
Trump’s speech — largely unscripted – ranged (and raged) for more than an hour, and barely mentioned Saccone until the end when Trump handed Saccone the mic and allowed him to say a few words.
It felt more like a therapy session – with Trump venting and attacking his enemies – than a political rally. I went through the entire transcript and pulled out the most memorable lines. They’re below.
[editorial notes from the Philadelphia Tribune]
“And Maxine Waters, a very low IQ individual.”
Not for nothing: Waters is an African-American woman. And, yes, Trump is well aware of that fact.
“She’s a low IQ individual. She can’t help it.”
So: Trump is suggesting that the reason Waters criticizes him is because she is dumb and can’t help herself. Yes, that’s it.
“I don’t know that the United States frankly is ready for it. They should be ready for it.”
The “it” Trump is talking about here is giving convicted drug dealers the death penalty, which he says is how China solved its opium problem.
“I never did polling on that. I don’t know if that’s popular. I don’t know if that’s unpopular.”
This is a real evergreen quote for Trump.
“We can’t just keep setting up blue ribbon committees with your wife and your wife and your husband, and they meet and they have a meal and they talk.”
Trump JUST praised Melania for serving on a blue ribbon commission on the opioid problem. Now he is saying these blue ribbon commissions are useless. Good times!
“When your daughter walks home. And they don’t use guns. You never saw guns. The NRA happens to be very good people, by the way.”
Non sequitur: “A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.”
“Hillary wouldn’t have liberated those towns.”
The 2016 election ended 487 days ago.
“So we are doing a great, great job.”
[Pats self on back repeatedly]
Do you think the speech helped or harmed Saccone?
Who is the “we” you speak of here?
Conor Lamb campaigned:
For universal health care
Against Trump’s tax cut
For expanded background checks
For stronger unions
Against cuts to Social Security
For a woman’s right to choose
For medical marijuana
Only items 1, 4, and 5 are on the “Priorities” section of his website:
https://conorlamb.com/priorities/
Notable absent is any mention of gun control, considering the events of the past month. But there is a section on expanding natural gas production.
zimaane:
Only items 1 and 4 are on the “Priorities” section of his website:
https://conorlamb.com/priorities/
Notable absent is any mention of gun control, considering the events of the past month. But there is a section on expanding natural gas production.
As I understand it, he’s not in favor of “gun control.” That’s fine with me. Big tent, and all that. That hardly makes him a Republican.
That’s still more than enough.
In that district, it would be fatal to claim any other position, so I’d give him a pass. Let’s see what he does .
zimaane:
Only items 1, 4, and 5 are on the “Priorities” section of his website:
https://conorlamb.com/priorities/
Notable absent is any mention of gun control, considering the events of the past month. But there is a section on expanding natural gas production.
David Axelrod: “Little-noted was that @ConorLambPA closed his campaign with an ad in SUPPORT of strengthened gun background checks.”
I guess we can close this thread, as the answer is officially yes .
Jones was certified and sworn in. I mean is there or is there not a possibility of Saccone calling for a recount, however improbable an overturn might be?
It’s possible, so the question is, who’s going to listen to him?
For what it’s worth, Politico has this on its page now :
If Lamb’s up by 627 with all the absentee ballots counted, it doesn’t look like Saccone has much to argue.
There is,
galen_ubal:
From CNN’s Adam Levy and Gary Tuchman
Pennsylvania Secretary of State spokesperson Wanda Murren tells us because this is a district race and not statewide, there is no mandatory recount here.
Petitions are allowed, which require three voters in each precinct to make.
They would have five days after the county completes its computation.
From CNN.
but it calls for a lot of legwork.
Isn’t it a pretty sure thing when your opponent hates America and God?
