Posted on 03/13/2018 5:16:01 PM PDT by Pinkbell
A thread to discuss the results.
I feel like Lamb has a lot of momentum, has run as a moderate, and has run a better campaign. I'll predict he'll win tonight (although I'd like to see Saccone win).
NYT does a good job with election results.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Losing by 6,984 with 268 precincts (45 percent of total)
Losing by 6,984 with 268 precincts (45 percent of total)
The rural areas are coming in slow, it’ll depend on the turn out in the sticks.
I believe Mark Shields is a Marine Corps veteran and he is as partisan a Democrat as they come (on PBS News Hour on Fridays...at least I think he still is, I stopped watching a long time ago).
The Times said Lamb is doing about a point better than they thought in Allegheny County ... I don’t want to sound arrogant, but looking at 25% of the county on the Times website tells me that Lamb is underperforming (given the hype) and that Saccone saw “typical” turnout.
Maybe he’s overperformed in other areas, but I can’t see it.
Losing by 7,694 with 280 precincts (48 percent of total)
Saccone is down and slipping on the NY Slimes meter.
53% Lamb likely to win on their meter, about half-way.
Boo. That is a 14 point swing in the NYT indicator. Let’s hope the early indications prove correct with the pattern it was seeing.
Lamb should be doing better out of Allegheny but isn’t, tons of Saccone vote out there yet
I expect a Lamb slaughter
The results have been tightening for at least a half hour. Reminds me of 2016, when the Wicked Witch broke out to a massive lead in PA and then the results slowly tightened to the point that The Donald won PA.
I certainly like him but he sure is boring.
Most of those seats are state legislators...not the US House or Senate.
Why? Republicans made the district. Although, you have your wish. The new map redrawn by the courts gets rid of the district all together.
Hillary turns some people off, too.
“But nothing has changed.”
I don’t know man ... look at Elizabeth Forward, Jefferson Hills, and the turnout in Pleasant Hills. Those areas would be closest to the mills ... they’re certainly turning out of Saccone in stronger numbers than I thought! (I’m not an expert ... just know these areas I keep on babbling about :-) ).
I did notice that Lamb had stronger-than-I-thought turnout in Bethel Park ... but I still think Saccone has this ...
Now losing by 8,321 (most yet) with 49 percent of the vote reporting
It’s appalling that it’s even close. No one should ever be voting for a rat knowing they voted against tax cuts and all....
“...and he is as partisan a Democrat as they come ...”
Just doesn’t make sense to me.
Wasn’t that guy Webb from Virginia a Marine too? He was a dem also.
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