Posted on 04/02/2019 5:44:31 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
Just home from working the Polls.
Final numbers for the entire district won’t be available yet, but I fully expect the D to pick up this seat.
Raja lost at the polling place by more than 20%. Turnout at the polling place I was at was far far above most if not all that were voting today.
Obviously other polling places could have a different turnout and Raja could win, but I would not bet on it.
Another horribly run campaign with a bad candidate..
This loss, if it turns out that way, will not be from lack of spending, of organization... but once again bad messaging and a c caliber candidate.
to bad
was this in Berks county?
Pittsburgh suburb
There are Uniparty “Republicans”, and there is the Party of Trump...
Donald Trump Jr enforced him and robocalled for him..
He took to the airwaves early and a lot
His messaging was garbage... as far as I’m concerned... I don’t understand why the GOP think what sells in deep red Alabama is what is going to work in the upper Midwest.
We will see, obviously,my one polling place isn’t a whole district but it’s a very engaged district always one of the highest turnout percentages, and has a slightly higher republican registration and he lost it by more than 20%
Given than I am hard pressed to believe he’s going to win, will know later but honestly I’d expect a solid D win.
show up at your next local GOP party meeting and try to figure out why they can’t find good candidates
Raja is down 8 points with 50% of vote in. It’s over.
If Trump isn’t on ballot Republicans struggle.
Democrats are running FAKE moderates who will vote 95% of time with leftist nut jobs like AOC.
Is this a State or Federal seat?
State Senate.
It’s not simply bad candidates it’s crap messaging...
Trump showed them how to win here, and they keep running campaigns with the same crap messaging before Trump ...
Stupid
For the record almost 70% of districts reporting and the D is up almost 8 points.
One more thing. Being REAL, Raja is not the type of candidate to win in PA. We need more candidates like Dan Crenshaw.
Why the GOP would select an Indian from Mount Lebanon who outsourced and who previously lost this seat is beyond me. This was a very winnable seat, but not with that guy.
OK, lets not to bent out of shape over it.
Raja lost this seat before 52/48. It’s 53/46 right now, and Washington County hasn’t reported anything, so it will get closer.
This is a baseline result.
Sorry but messaging on Raja campaign was crap... not even getting into the fact Raja is slimey..
GOP lost another one.
Why?
He’s not winning... Washington County isn’t making up 8 points. He can’t lose the districts like mine by that margin and make it up elsewhere.
He’s done
Crap messaging, crap campaign, slimey candidate...
I said it was a baseline result, right in line with what he did last time he ran and lost in this district. This isn’t some massive overperformance by the Rats. A better candidate, and this would have been a win.
If it were in Berks Co Raja would win!!!
Not with the messaging this campaign had. No candidate is winning with the messaging the GOP keeps throwing out here.
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