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LBM20

(1,580 posts)
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 07:43 PM Jun 2017

A few months back a write-in Dem won a PA house seat in a deep blue area. Same idea as last night.

A Philly write-in candidate back in March won a PA House special election seat over the R and a Green Party candidate both of whom campaigned quite a bit. That is how hard it is for an R to win in a deep blue area. Same thing in these specials in deep red areas. Our candidates were trying to win in very red districts. It is HARD. Good that our candidates made up a lot of ground over last November with very large vote shifts in their direction. But just not enough to entirely change these deep red districts with huge R registration advantages and long traditions of voting for R's.

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