This warrants the attention that was mistakenly given to the KY governorship.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/pennsylvania-suburbs-trump-067078Democrats seized control of suburban Philadelphia’s Delaware County Council for the first time in history, knocking out what was once one of the most powerful GOP machines in the nation.
With Bevin being the 2nd most despised governor in the nation, and with only two previous GOP governors in decades, it's not such a big deal that Beshear won. But the PA turnover is a really big deal.
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..... the Fascists are shown the exit door.
If so, c'mon now, BRAG!
Congrats, so cool. 
I would be more ready to believe Holly is your daughter 
Congratulations again. Holly is a really fine journalist.
where Democrats lost a bunch of seats in the NJ state legislature and in some of the Counties in South Jersey. The legislature there is still majority (D) but still... 
It seems that with the blue cities getting darker blue and the purple burbs getting bluer, the GOP is consolidating more and more into the small town & rural areas and making them red.
But what has been happening over the past 10 years is that radicals within the party have been targeting them (complete with outside funding) during the primaries and have been slowly replacing them with the crazies. 
So after a couple instances of "primarying" as an intimidation tactic, any remaining ones start pivoting and acting like the crazies. It's just insane.
You're probably right. Can't keep my acronyms straight any more.
Senior moment.
was that we finally got rid of the "super-majorities" of (R)s in our state legislature. So with our having re-elected a (D) governor also in 2018, he can veto the heck out of any crazy shit that the GOP puts forward and they can't override it.
that contributed to some of the Dem success this cycle, and hopefully leads to more equitable re-districting on the next go-around.
Come to think of it, PA has benefitted from the re-districting work being done, too.
and that pretty much sealed it (and the federal courts refused to hear any arguments from either side about it because it was a "state issue" ). And then having finally managed to get a Democratic governor elected in 2014 (booting Corbett (R)), which allowed (D)s to finally start challenging the gerrymandered districts. THEN we had had an election in 2017 (I believe) that shifted the state Supreme Court to majority (D), and their ruling to redraw the lines withstood all the challenges and the court itself drew the new lines to comply with the state Constitution's requirement for "compact and contiguous" districts.
The laughing-stock original PA-7 looked like this before it was completely redrawn and renumbered. The bottom right-hand portion of that is now part of the new PA-5 encompassing Delaware County that was mentioned in the OP -
(and when the redrawing happened, the GOP loons threatened to impeach the (D) justices on the state Supreme Court 
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but it's been mostly blocked by the GOP.
However the shocker of the week was that the GOP legislature and the governor actually came to a compromise to start making some changes in our voting where the (D)s gave up straight-ticket voting (much to the consternation of many Democrats here in Philly) in exchange for "no-excuse" mail-in absentee voting! ACTUALLY just read it and apparently this is allowing regular "mail-in voting" too - up to 50 days before (and you can be put on a list to always get your ballot by mail)! 
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/newtown-pa/7-big-changes-voting-pa-just-signed-law
https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/governor-wolf-signs-election-reform-bill-including-new-mail-in-voting/
I remember doing telephone town halls with my State Senator and always asking about whether anything was happening with "early voting", etc and here we are! 
there are some polling places for handicapped and such, but essentially they mail the ballots to us and we fill them out and mail them in, postage free now.
Sadly, it seems the participation rate still isn't very good. 
It's pretty much getting people motivated to vote period - whether they go to a polling place or mail it in. There is always a subset who will complain that it "doesn't matter".
