[Tribune7]

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[GoCards]

What about this Gleason guy?

[tflabo]

Man I like Russell but even if he faced Critz there’s way too many dumb sheets Rat voters in PA-12. Buncha brickheads deserve the dreck they elect.

[pissant]

Another establishment GOPer down, this time to a marxist. How quaint.

[Prole]

Satan himself could have been running as a democrat for office in Murtha’s district, and the idiots would still vote democrat.

Talk about a hopeless bunch of people.

[KoRn]

Even though this stupid district has voted for Murtha since Washington was in office, this is the kind of district he Rs need to win come November. Hopefully they will learn something from this and get their act together.

You can’t win every race with “0bama is a Socialist and Pelosi sucks”. You gotta give people something to vote FOR, with ideas and inspiration.

[Terry Mross]

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.

[Maelstorm]

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.

[jerry557]

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.

[muleskinner]

I heard there was a video of Burns endorsing the 23% Fair Tax. Critz hammered Burns with it to say your taxes will go up 23%. Burns didn't counter well.

Anyone in PA 12 seen the add?

[Oceander]

I guess the old adage still holds; you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. Perhaps even the Murtha-bots will finally start getting thirsty come November.



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[OrioleFan]

How did the coal miners vote in this election?

[sinanju]

The voters of that district have little to celebrate.

Murtha’s seniority and committee appointments are not transferable.

I’m betting the DoD is just aching to pay back for all those years of being pushed around by Murtha. They will bug out of Johnstown as fast as possible. All these faux defense contractors have lost their protector and will soon lose their contracts as well.

Mark this prophecy, within a year or two these fat-and-happy people will be selling apples in the street.