PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS FLIP A STATE SENATE SEAT FROM RED TO BLUE

[RandySF]

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[Irishxs]

1. 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉! !!!

[bluestarone]

2. AMAZING!!!!!

[UniteFightBack]

3. Where is PA is this?? nt

[RandySF]

4. Pittsburgh area

[DeminPennswoods]

14. South andWest Hills area of Allegheny County

Moon, Findley, Robinson Twps, Mt Lebanon, Upper St Clair plus Peters Twp in Washington County.

Looking at the results, Iovino won big in Mt Lebo and environs, but Peters Twp hasn't reported its results yet.

[Leghorn21]

5. K&R!!!

[GP6971]

6. YES!!

In a district that dotard easily won.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. :::: Throws confetti ::::

[Takket]

8. well done Senator!!!!!!!!!!

[Cha]

9. Dems are still at it..

BlueWave Style!

[ProudLib72]

10. Woo hoo! More of this!

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Great news!

PA needs more blue to help get rid of the Orange in DC!

[onetexan]

12. Woohoo!

best news of the day

[mcar]

13. ...

[David__77]

15. Great news.

I’m also glad that Democrats are doing well in the generic House poll.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. PA state Senate pick-ups are truly stunning

For the non-Pennsylvanians here, prior to the 2018 mid-terms, the GOP held a 34-16 supermajority in the state Senate. With this pick up, the GOP edge is now 26-22 with 2 open R-held seats to be filled during the May 21st primary. And the GOP did Dems a huge favor by nominating for the Gettysburg-based SD-33 a Trump-humper retired Army officer. According to the latest F and M poll, Trump is underwater in every area, including central PA, except SW PA.

[Tiggeroshii]

17. Oh how nice it will be to get another trifecta...

It is in sight.

[gratuitous]

18. Is there another blue wave building for 2020?

I'm going to pretend it is, and work for the election of every Democrat I can.

[laurieu]

19. The Republican must of had a lot of money

Money and well organized, His signs, some very large, were everywhere that you looked. And he still lost.. Good news.

[DeminPennswoods]

20. Raja is the Allegheny Co GOP chairman

but this was also his 3rd run at elective office. He was a known quantity and just hasn't generated any enthusiasm in any of his candidacies.

[Celerity]

25. D. Raja (the Republican) was attacked in a racist manner by his own Rethug opponent in the past

https://archive.triblive.com/news/opponent-denies-racism-in-raja-attack-ads/

State Rep. Mark Mustio said on Friday he will end attack ads against primary election opponent D. Raja that fellow Republicans have labeled “racist” and “anti-Indian” because they exploit racial stereotypes.

“I don’t have a racist bone in my body,” Mustio, who is white, said in an interview. “The emphasis is on India because that’s where he sent the jobs.”

Mustio’s campaign for the state Senate seat mailed thousands of flyers printed with the messages, “D. Raja has outsourced many of our jobs to India,” and, “Why would we ever vote for Raja to represent us?” next to pictures of India’s flag and a map of the country. Another ad features a photo of Raja and his full first name, Dakshinamurthy.

Raja, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in India, is listed as D. Raja on Allegheny County Election Division ballot materials.

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I am sure that had some blow-back this election, given the Rethugs are now the party of the hater Trump

[spinbaby]

29. It's definitely racist

I don’t live in this district, but do live nearby. Many of the mouth breathers who voted for Trump stayed home for this election because they didn’t want to vote for an Indian.

[Zambero]

21. So let's have another!

And ANOTHER, and ANOTHER, and ANOTHER, and...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Final result: Iovino 52%, Raja 48%

All precincts 100% reporting.

[pazzyanne]

23. +1

[Butterflylady]

24. Sometimes

We do something right.

[FakeNoose]

26. The take away is that Democrats aren't conceding "deep red" districts

Mount Lebanon has been Republican for probably 50 years, and now they're blue. Rep. Connor Lamb (who's from Mount Lebanon) blazed the trail in 2018 when he won the US 18th district seat. When the right candidate steps up and organizes a good campaign message, people will respond.

There are no "deep red" districts any more, now that the disgust with Chump's party is so high.

[RobinA]

31. I Wouldn't Call

Mt. Lebanon "deep red." It's a wealthy area (I don't know how gerrymandered it is, I'm from the east, but I lived in Pittsburgh a bunch of years ago) and probably isn't "the base." When I was out there it was sane people with money who voted Repug so they could keep their money (or so they thought.) While I'm glad for any flip in the state legislature we can get, I wouldn't read too much into it. Pennsylbama it ain't.

[FakeNoose]

32. Yes not much has changed from what you remember

But the Democratic Party stopped trying to win there because the Republicans were well-organized and they always seemed to win. Like I said, nobody made much effort to unseat the GOP until Connor Lamb did it last March. He showed it can be done. Then his district got redrawn and he still won in his new district last November.

For this special election (PA legislature) Raja tried to run his GOP campaign per-usual with lots of negative TV ads. Pam Iovino had lots of help getting out the vote for her. She did a great job with volunteers, even though she didn't have a large advertising budget. It was a good campaign and she won.

[Power 2 the People]

27. Flipped!!

[peggysue2]

28. Very Good News

[red dog 1]

30. K&R

[MoonRiver]

33. Fantastic news!!

[Wounded Bear]

34. Keep the blue wave rolling!