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S.E. TN Liberal

(508 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 04:48 PM May 2018

"Pennsylvania Goes to the Polls"

I think this is a pretty good assessment of the Pennsylvania vote;


http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2018/Senate/Maps/May16.html#item-1

"...In general, the trend on Tuesday was that Pennsylvania Democrats gravitated toward more centrist/electable candidates and Pennsylvania Republicans gravitated toward more Trump-like candidates, as the GOP continues to become fully the party of Trump. If we are looking for signs of Democratic enthusiasm, well, about 750,000 members of the blue team showed up to vote on Tuesday compared to about 675,000 members of the red team. That despite the fact that the top of the Democratic ticket (Casey and Wolf) was uncontested while the top of the GOP ticket was hotly contested. Not overwhelmingly positive for the Democrats, but certainly positive...."...

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