Posted on 03/27/2018 8:00:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Democrats' triumph in a House special election in Pennsylvania gives them hope for big gains in November's midterm elections.
But the party still faces a tough path toward winning two other House special elections set for later this year.
Democrat Conor Lamb scored a narrow of win in Pennsylvania's 18th District, which Republicans recently dominated. With fewer than 1,000 votes separating the candidates, Republican Rick Saccone conceded to Lamb on Wednesday, more than a week after the election. Ex-GOP Rep. Tim Murphy represented the area for more than a decade, and President Donald Trump carried it by about 20 percentage points in 2016.
The result in the area recently owned by the GOP has given Democrats more optimism about winning the 24 Republican-held seats in November needed to take a House majority. Republican leaders argue the minority party in Congress will have a tough time replicating the result, as Lamb successfully threaded the needle between supporting Democratic ideals on health care, taxes and the social safety net, while taking moderate stances on gun control and abortion. He also refused to support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is a rhetorical punching bag for the GOP.
Democrats have now outperformed their 2016 results in House special elections since Trump took office in typically red pockets of states such as Pennsylvania, Montana, South Carolina and Kansas. Following Lamb's victory, election analysts give the party a better chance of winning upcoming House special elections in Arizona and Ohio.
Yet while the Ohio seat in particular is within Democrats' reach, Republicans are currently favored to win both elections.
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From the article: “Democrats have reason for optimism in the special elections, and November’s midterms overall, because of recent House special election results.”
Does CNBC not know that those results were obtained by means of extraordinary infusions of cash from outside of the districts? Or is it simply ignoring that?
Yep....... Money on both sides of the aisle comes from
outside the districts. I’d bet that most times a majority
comes from outside. just a guess.
We need to get out the vote. This is not the year to stand down at the polls! We need to override the Democrat-Communist voter fraud that will be inevitable! That’s why your hearing about the blue wave! To make their fraud appear to be legitimate voting! Our votes must be so overwhelming that it overrides their fraud!! In my own state they are close to getting gun confiscation on the November ballot. This is not to be tolerated!
We must rally! We must stop the Democrat-Communist agenda.
What “good news” for Democrats? Low taxes, thriving economy and they want to remove the 2nd amendment. I’m thinking landslide for Republicans.
November is what counts.
If you think a no name Democrat with a name that sounds like leftover pieces from a Scrabble game is going to win a district that has Sun City and Luke AFB in it , then you are using too much medicinal marijuana.
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