Well look, it’s not good and it’s depressing seeing all the faggots celebrating.
But the bottom line is a poor candidate lost by an eyelash to a dude in a district that won’t exist in 10 months, file that under “not the hugest deal”. Bad GOP candidates can always find a way to lose in all but the most Republican districts especially when facing slick a-holes who do all they can to fool people into forgetting they are running under the democrat banner.
What’s important now is November, current District 18 has essentially been cut in half by the illegal court ordered redistricting. Lambchop will be running for reelection against Congressman Keith Rothfus is new district 17. And he would have ended up being the the nominee in district 17 even if Saccone had come up on top.
The bad news is new district 17 is only narrowly Republican. The good news is Rothfus is a strong incumbent who beat a sitting rat (Mark Critz) in 2012 so pajama boy has his work cut out for him. A lot of other rats are intersting in running, the best thing that could happen is a progtard beats Lambchop in the primary, the would be a lark.
The other half of current district 18 is new district 14, it’s an open seat and heavily Republican, Trump won it by 30 points (22 irrc was the margin in the current 18th), no dem has a chance there. Loser Saccone will be seeking the GOP nomination there, I hope he doesn’t get it.
Even though Murphy had won reelection, the district is 50,000 D advantage.
Mike Sheppard on twitter has Sheppard’s Law, which says that no one can win a special election if he is of the same party as the person stepping down from a scandal. (See Dan Johnson’s widow losing in KY). Some truth to that.
Ultimately, the question is in states with primaries, would another Lambchop ever get through? Probably not. The national whackadoodles are pushing the party further left. Those candidates cannot win general elections. But if the “conservative Dems” get through primaries, they will be hard to beat just because Trump carried so many D districts. Also there is the historically consistent “party out of power gains seats in off years”.
“Bad GOP candidates...”
And there’s the root cause right there. I won’t bother listing the more infamous names.