“learn and grow. The question is whether they will take this opportunity to do that”...
The Republicans seem to have difficulty learning and growing. My wife and I have become sooooooooo disappointed in them, we have switched to independents (usually supporting a repub but not always).
Then Trump, seeming more like an “independent” came along. You can guess where our allegiance is today.
They won’t because the GOPe still runs the show......and they don’t mind returning to minority status as long as the Chamber of Commerce can still march on. They are just as happy playing the role of “loyal opposition”. CTH just posted a great in-depth article on just this topic
It is tough to run against a charismatic person in the first place. But when that person is a democrat and runs to the right of his party, it is really hard.
Saccone did not run a great race. Does the GOP needs to pick better candidates, surely. But regardless, that candidate must be connected with the voters and not insult them (anti-Union).
So...is she saying don't run on of a campaign of supporting the President? That voters think the President isn't working for them? I'm not sure that's a winning plan.
Now let's see if he was a liar or will actually be a 'Reagan Democrat' type and help Trump with those things.
It would be nice to have some DINO's in office.
Lousy candidates lose. End of lesson .
No matter how the election goes, one way or the other, the bottom line is that Republican, Candidate, Rick Saccone did not get near the turnout of voters that POTUS, Donald j. Trump received in 2016, Had he been a more pro-active candidate, he would have politically slaughtered Democrat, Conon Lamb!!! Lamb out campaigned him from the start.
Saccone was as foolish and laid back, as Judge, Roy Moore in Alabama was,...come om, riding around on a horse, goofing off, instead of non-stop campaigning will do you in every time. I cannot believe Republican campaign leadership is that dumb....or maybe I am wrong and they, the GOP(E) really want it this way. With Ryan, McConnell, Rove, etc. I just simply wonder?
want it this way
I learned nothing from that article except voters maybe liked the Democrat more.
“Lamb ran as a conservative Democrat, who not only renounced Pelosi, but supported Second Amendment rights.”
This is the ONLY reason he won. This guy on the Republican party platform. All these nervous nellies refuse to recognize the obvious. The Democratic party didn’t win, this guy did. The minute he begins to vote with Pelosi and has any kind of voting record, he’s out on his ass.
Saccone was starting out in a hole because he was replacing a guy who had spent two decades lying to his voters about supporting their values.
He needed to work twice as hard to overcome that. He didn’t even come up to half-speed.
The problem is a matter of running a loser as candidate. Losers lose.
We learned that we can’t pull a Hillary and take winning for granted.
This is a special election to replace an elected official for the remainder of term, right? So there will be another election for the same seat this Fall.
So republican turnout was low, right? Who can get excited about a seat that is to be filled for only 8 or so months before another election?
The only lesson is that democrats can win when the republican base stays home, duh.
If I had to bet, I would bet the republican base turns out in November.
Until then, this issue is nothing more than grist for media types to chew on when they have nothing better to do.
1.) This “special election” is meaningless, in that, come November, Pennsylvanians get to do the dance over again.
2.) Assuming that Mr. Lamb has real political aspirations, anyone who believes that he will not tow the Democrat Party line is seriously deluded.
3.) Considering the unconstitutionality of the “redistricting” done by the PA Supreme Court, and the fact that, by such remapping, Mr. Lamb and his contemporaries no longer live in the districts for which they ran or will run, the entirety of this political farce will become moot - the sordid mess will soon end up before the SCOTUS.
So, who won?
Deny that reality, and voters will fall for many false narratives by candidates like Lamb who are selected "bait" for votes in 2018 and 2010!
Well look, it’s not good and it’s depressing seeing all the faggots celebrating.
But the bottom line is a poor candidate lost by an eyelash to a dude in a district that won’t exist in 10 months, file that under “not the hugest deal”. Bad GOP candidates can always find a way to lose in all but the most Republican districts especially when facing slick a-holes who do all they can to fool people into forgetting they are running under the democrat banner.
What’s important now is November, current District 18 has essentially been cut in half by the illegal court ordered redistricting. Lambchop will be running for reelection against Congressman Keith Rothfus is new district 17. And he would have ended up being the the nominee in district 17 even if Saccone had come up on top.
The bad news is new district 17 is only narrowly Republican. The good news is Rothfus is a strong incumbent who beat a sitting rat (Mark Critz) in 2012 so pajama boy has his work cut out for him. A lot of other rats are intersting in running, the best thing that could happen is a progtard beats Lambchop in the primary, the would be a lark.
The other half of current district 18 is new district 14, it’s an open seat and heavily Republican, Trump won it by 30 points (22 irrc was the margin in the current 18th), no dem has a chance there. Loser Saccone will be seeking the GOP nomination there, I hope he doesn’t get it.