Women Score Major Victories in House Primary Races in Pennsylvania
Source: New York Times
A state representative, an Air Force veteran and a high-powered attorney — all women — won Democratic House primaries on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where a record number of women ran for House seats in a year of intense political enthusiasm among female Democrats.
It was a night of major victories for female candidates in a state dominated by men from Congress to the Statehouse. Women showed strength in nearly every region, from the liberal eastern suburbs to the conservative southwest. Democratic women won competitive primaries in two safe Republican districts in western Pennsylvania.
Madeleine Dean, the state House member; Chrissy Houlahan, the veteran; and Mary Gay Scanlon, the lawyer, each won in Philadelphia suburban districts that they are now favored to carry in November, according to results from The Associated Press. Their primary victories raise the likelihood of women cracking the state’s all-male congressional delegation of 20 after midterm elections.
The women won in districts that were redrawn to replace a gerrymandered Republican map that the State Supreme Court ruled illegal in January. The new map of the state’s 18 House districts — and the ebullience it set off among Democrats hoping to capture the House of Representatives in the midterms — put Pennsylvania front-and-center among four states that held primaries on Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/us/politics/pennsylvania-primaries.html
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Her name is Bibiana Boerio, and she is very qualified. 
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Latrobe, I believe.
Yes, it could get interesting. 
I was wondering what's going on there tonight.
This would be a great seat pickup if GOTV is there (I usually haven't included it in my pickup column but am more and more hopeful for this one).
The reconfigured district (which no longer splits the Lehigh Valley area) is not loony and there is no need for a Democrat to be one either. The new district now encompasses all of Allentown/Bethlehem (of the "steel" fame) and Easton (of Crayola crayon fame). Where before, Easton had been peeled off into a different district so that both sets of municipalities would be diluted in wacky ways with rural red areas (i.e., diluted within the old PA-15 and PA-17). The combined population of Allentown/Bethlehem is ~ 200,000 and all 3 cities are strongly Democratic. Both counties in the new district (Northampton and Lehigh) have majority Democratic registrations and county/municipal officeholders.
Old map (where PA-7 replaces what was PA-15 & PA-17, in part) -
New map with the new PA-7 -
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/elections/index.ssf/2018/05/wins_lehigh_valleys_democratic.html
to supplement our current 5 (out of a total of 18) - i.e., take PA-1, PA-5, PA-6, PA-7, & PA-17. Based on statewide party registration, THAT is what we should really have - 10 Democrats - 8 GOP.
With the gerrymandered districts, it is currently 13 GOP - 5 Democrats. 
This is a good summary of what's at stake now (although the author threw a 6th seat in there that is a long shot but who knows?) - https://www.vox.com/2018/5/16/17352828/pennsylvania-primary-2018-results-house-nominees
