The PA Dem tv ad were all the same:
“So-and-So voted for the (free trade) bill to ship jobs overseas. Vote for me, I’ll creat jobs.”
I was worried it might work (that strategy had worked in the past two elections), thank goodness for the smarter voters in PA.
At the end of the day, Toomey motivated Dems in SE Philly to overcome their enthusiasm gap and get out to vote for him. Corbett had the good fortune to be against a very weak Dem candidate in Onorato (I saw him at a train station, he looked like a guy who could be in the cubicle next to you at work, I had to go over to the other side of the platform to be sure it was actually him). We as conservatives have to be cognizant that if we push to have red-meat conservatives in purple states, that will be a motivating factor for Dem GOTV efforts, and we have to be prepared to react in kind to support conservatives.