So what is your breathless opinion when the GOP wins ones of these special elections? Do you even bother to post when they do?
Or do you think every election should be won, and if you dont then OMG run around and panic?
Bingo! The facts are the facts and that kind of venom and childish response is laughable.
This particular poster chose to post articles from communist Vox in the past as well as to come and crow after every special election how the GOP is doomed. I’ve never seen this poster put out a thread before a special election asking Freepers to go vote.
This poster is also wrong.
Every district in the country has a PVI. The Cook Partisan Voting Index, often abbreviated as CPVI or simply PVI, is a measurement of how strongly a United States congressional district or state leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party, compared to the nation as a whole.
HD-178 had a PVI of D+1. That means that in a given election, it would be about 1 point more Democrat than the country as a whole.
While it’s true that the seat was previously held by the GOP, the PVI was still slightly Democrat. Obama won big in this district as did Wolf. Trump barely won here. 50-47.
It’s full of snotty bratty soccer mom types.
HD-48 on the other side of the State was held by a Democrat. It has been held by a Democrat for ages. While Trump won big there, Conor Lamb won it by 5, and Tom Wolf won it by 1 in 2014. It was so Democrat that the GOP didn’t field a candidate in 2016 and the last contested legislative seat was won by the Democrat in 2014 by a 58-41 margin.
The GOP won it by 10 frickin points last night.
To ignore that win, and to also ignore the fact that the GOP also held HD-68 just to highlight a 96 vote loss in a PVI D+1 district is concern trolling.
You people who don’t care about losing 41 seats are irritating. We won 5. Throw a party. Congratulations. Good grief. You celebrate losing seats. Never thought I’d see the day.