Posted on 05/18/2010 8:11:13 PM PDT by Tribune7
Mark Critz, the aide to the late Congressman John Murtha, won a special election Tuesday to fill the remainder of his term which ends Jan. 3.
Critz, a Democrat, easily beat Republican Tim Burns, who state GOP Chairman Rob Gleason had tapped over Bill Russell, the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who ran against Murtha in 2008.
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I got an email from some group that said this was a close race so they need money for the ones we can really win. yeah, right.
Isn’t this rat pretending to be conservative? Of course we all know how that really works thanks to the health care bill.
I’ve seen too many times where republicans celebrate too early. How many were saying there was no way obama could win?
I don’t see Republicans taking back the house or the senate in 2010. They have a lot of work to do. Hopefully, conservatives will realize this and not let up. Even if they don’t take back the house and senate, it would sure be a lot better than it is now if they took back a lot of seats.
Thoughts?
Exactly!
I was looking at the numbers and it appears that Burns under performed Republican primary voters considerably for counties like Armstrong. Also Armstrong is a puzzle because it went heavily for McCain and Russell but Critz won it? Some of these numbers really don’t make sense. They had some problem with double ballots being given out earlier today.
In Armstrong County in particular:
The net total of Dem votes for the primary was 3,682.
Mark Critz got 4,366 votes for the special election.
The net Republicans voting in the county Republican Primary
3,833
Burns ended up with 3,343. Even with the Libertarian numbers taken into account these numbers are really screwed up.
Did Republicans voters really shift by such a large Margin to Critz? I don’t believe it. It appears there are a lot of funny numbers like this.
Armstrong County should have been an easy win for Burns that he lost it with a clear advantage of Republican favored turnout is puzzling.
Even in the Republican Senate race here were the numbers
Republican votes= 7587
Democrat votes=6087
This really suggests something is wrong. I don’t believe these numbers. I don’t believe Burns could have lost this county yet he did. 54% to 42%. This is really strange and smacks of some chicanery.
I note that Sarah Palin endorsed Tim Burns. hmmm
Perhaps we will hear more. This is a sick district anyway to keep on electing Murtha and his aide.
I'd bet it was Russell supporters not hitting the lever.
I guess the dems in that district won't vote for a black candidate.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was Russell supporters hitting the Critz lever.
That could be the case plus write in votes and no votes aren’t tabulated but it doesn’t appear they didn’t just not vote. It looks like they crossed over and voted for Democrat. Russell lost the primary tonight. I hope he will get behind Tim Burns and Tim Burns needs to do much better if he is going to win this in Nov. I think he can but these numbers are still troubling.
These two are completely unrelated. This is a local race where dem was acting more like a conservative. He ran against ObamaCare, and the GOP candidate failed to paint the guy as a Pelosi Dem. This is a Dem district that can vote GOP, but it takes a good campaign. Additionally, the Dem primary for Senate likely brought out more Dem voters than GOP since Toomey had it in the bag.
I think it is safe to say Burns is the wrong guy to run in November, so it will be a tough one to win back, but not all districts are meant to be up for grabs.
Leave it to the Republican party flacks to screw up what should have been a win. They should have just went with Russell and left it at that. I hate when Republicans shoot themselves in the foot. They are doing the same thing in NY23 yet again with Doheny versus Hoffman.
The PA poor really believe in people like Murtha — that such are needed to keep them from starvation.
not sure how everyone is so worked up over one Democratic district. There are a massive slew of districts that are traditionally GOP or true swing districts that are moving back to the GOP this year. If the election were today, there is no doubt we would pick up a ton of seats. With the election 5 1/2 months away, hopefully that stays the same.
ACORN?
PA is a state that pretends to be swing but more often than not will disappoint Republicans.
I dont get my hopes up anymore with ANY race in that state.
“They are doing the same thing in NY23 yet again with Doheny versus Hoffman.”
Oh my, hadn’t heard that.
It’s Alliquippa.
The land of union hand outs.
Just like Youngstown.
The good news is a lot of them aint buying it.
Yeah it seems they had assumed Hoffman wasn’t running. Conservative Republicans seem to like running against themselves.
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