Doom...
Republicans have been out here acting like they won forever. it doesn’t seem like that at all to me. I’m not saying all doom but they better start working because the deck is stacked against them.
I bet the turnout was single-digits.
The Democrat party in the US will go down in history as the biggest criminal organization in the world.
When Trump (or an equivalent) is not on the ballot, many Republicans are simply just motivated enough to go out and vote. There’s no fire in the belly.
And with judges? There’s even less motivation.
Don’t get me wrong. This Pennsylvania judicial election was important, very important! But too many Republicans didn’t see it that way.
Tragic, really.
Sorry. First line in my #10 should read:
When Trump (or an equivalent) is not on the ballot, many Republicans are simply NOT motivated enough to go out and vote.
It was an off-year election. Turnout was key, and the AWFULs turned out.
Most voters couldn’t name the judges and wouldn’t be able to say why they should be tossed out.
Slate. Uh huh.
Was it one of those Keep Them Or Not ballots?
In that case, Keep wins big everywhere.
People don’t get worked up over judges that are appointed.
Was it an actual race with 2 candidates?
More democrat cheating.
This is always how elections like this go.
Republicans won big in 2024. Most of those people went to sleep believing their work was done.
Democrats are bitter because they lost in 2024, so they they have challenger energy.
Democrats turned out. Republicans stayed home asleep.
That’s basically what happens all the time in these inter presidential election periods.
Republicans had basically no game, and honestly people are mad that very little seems to be happening from them.
People invariably follow mainstream media. They lived Trump’s with this and is surprised, shocked, discouraged, sidelined
He is not
Our whole political system has this problem
Republicans act like Americans, comparable
to trying to herd kittens. That is rarely
sucessful.
Democrats are “Lock step” party members
that rarely go against the party.
They remind me of films I’ve seen of
Nazi troops marching in a parade for
Hitler.
Kittens against Jackbooted Automatons.
Kittens will lose or run off.
A judge is almost never removed on a Yes/No retention vote unless he/she has somehow been brought to the public’s attention by some personal scandal or has released some murderer who went out and murdered again.
My dad’s philosophy years and years ago on judge retention votes was to always vote NO to retain because they always got retained on a 60/40 vote. So I vote NO. Dad’s been right for decades now.
In my experience, people never really pay attention to judicial elections. They barely pay attention to other elections.
It means Republicans turned complacent in the last year and are now losing the advantage.
The retention elections cannot be compared to other elections as the candidates do not display party affiliation. Again this is the republicans under Pileggi i think that made up these rules. I have yet to compare to see if the republican areas of the state actually voted to retain these judges. That will be a significant finding. I’m not sure if the published results now in Delco allow for that analysis.
Plus we have lost statewide before and in the case of the prior AG race Republicans did split out and crossed to vote for the dem AG at about 2-3 percent (4-6 net %). I call these republicans international communists. Abortion was the reason for the AG but that doesn’t matter. When you get so called republicans voting for non conservative ideals it means they don’t have conservative ideals.
Election fraud is still alive and well. 🙄