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Pennsylvania's Dramatic Shift Rightward Is a Warning Sign for Both Parties about Overreach
Townhall.com ^ | April 12, 2022 | Salena Zito

Posted on 04/12/2022 4:28:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania -- When Ken Miller changed his party registration from Democrat to Republican in September 2020, he said he wasn't doing it for Donald Trump. He had not voted for Trump nor Hillary Clinton in 2016. Rather, he said, he was doing it for himself and his community after watching Democrats govern during the pandemic.

"I am tired of what I am seeing," he said. Democrats appeared to ignore people like Miller, viewing his vote as replaceable by someone in their theoretical ascendant Democratic coalition of young people, women, intellectuals and nonwhite voters. But the thinkers in Washington may have been too clever by half.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; demonrats; election2022; election2024; pa; paping; pennsylvania; republicans; salenazito
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1 posted on 04/12/2022 4:28:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The left has never learned any lesson about over reach. They always do it in some way. While republicans are constantly reminded about over reach.


2 posted on 04/12/2022 4:37:44 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: virgil
The left has never learned any lesson about over reach.

That's because it's always 2 steps forward, 1 step back. We NEED about a million steps back with them right now...
3 posted on 04/12/2022 4:42:20 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: Kaslin
Until & unless Republicans fix the dem cheating/fraud problem, Republicans will continue losing elections they otherwise would have won. Here we are in 2022 and no one has been prosecuted let alone jailed for the in your face fraud of the 2020 election. We are being governed by criminals and sadly the R party is divided on fixing/fighting to stop the fraud. It's as though the Republican party accepts that dems cheat.
4 posted on 04/12/2022 4:42:35 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Kaslin

Politics is never static. There are no permanent victories or permanent defeats. If Republicans believe people like Mr. Miller have become ideological-conservative, libertarian, constitutionalist or what have you-then they really are as dumb as everyone says. They made the same mistake under Gingrich in ‘92.

The Democrats are already deploying a contingency plan: replace the voter base with illegal aliens who have no historical roots in America and see the country as a gigantic teat they can milk in perpetuity; you know, just like Democrats.


5 posted on 04/12/2022 4:43:56 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: Kaslin

Well, there can be all the warning signs in the world. The question is, who will count all those votes..


6 posted on 04/12/2022 4:46:58 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: Kaslin

The Demonicrats will just carry out more election fraud and the Pennsylvanian Republicans will do nothing.


7 posted on 04/12/2022 4:50:47 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Well, there can be all the warning signs in the world. The question is, who will count all those votes..

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I saw a LOT of Trump signs and billboards in rural PA recently. All I could think is, what are you going to do about Philly. It doesn’t matter how many votes they need. There are always more boxes to pull out at 2am.


8 posted on 04/12/2022 4:52:15 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Kaslin

why is it always a “warning” sign for BOTH parties whenever the Dems F-up, but nary a word about the Dems when the GOP is attacked? ... oh yeah, same reason that the bully and victim are always at fault: the left can NEVER take the blame:


9 posted on 04/12/2022 4:53:35 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: virgil
The left has never learned any lesson about over reach.

The Left pays NO consequences for breaking the law. Why should they worry about over reach? Nothing is off the table with them when it comes to getting what they want.

I wish the republican squishes had half of that kind of take-no-prisoners approach in them. But after 2020 we now know that RINOs are traitors of the worst order. If we get a good housecleaning in the primaries this year and put some quality, constitutional conservatives in their place, then we might see some change.

10 posted on 04/12/2022 5:04:09 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: stormhill

Yep. I live in a heavily immigrant (Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, some Latins as well) and they continue to mask up despite no mandate and have no problem making their kids continue to do it. No protests just compliance and a collectivist sheep-like mentality.


11 posted on 04/12/2022 5:16:56 AM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: Carl Vehse

Why should they? A good number of Republicans wanted Trump gone... they were co conspirators in the fraud.


12 posted on 04/12/2022 5:18:27 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: virgil
The left has never learned any lesson about over reach.

They don't have to. Recall that they "won" Pennsylvania in 2020 despite all this. When you can manufacture hundreds of thousands of votes, you don't need to worry anything except keeping the vote manufacturers on your side.
13 posted on 04/12/2022 5:23:42 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Kaslin

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14 posted on 04/12/2022 5:25:52 AM PDT by sauropod (So may we start? It's time to start.)
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To: Kaslin

The 7 million votes cast in Philadelphia by the 2.8 million voters will always be enough for another vote tally after all other precincts are in. Whatever it takes.


15 posted on 04/12/2022 5:28:35 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: HamiltonJay

Montgomery County, Bucks County, Chester County, and Philadelphia County, are a blue turd punchbowl. It’s really bizarre. Just yesterday they all celebrated the return of masks, which at this point are just facial coverings to avoid being identified in a line-up, but the do-gooder soccer moms and their cuckold husbands just need to telegraph their nuanced progressivism with masks.


16 posted on 04/12/2022 5:33:25 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: Kaslin

The left ALWAYS overplays their hand. ALWAYS! The party of “feelings” and emotions lack the intellectual discipline to moderate their behavior in order not to shock the plebes who are usually tuned out playing games on their cellphones.


17 posted on 04/12/2022 5:35:00 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Kaslin
Voters are angry at Democrats about inflation; gas prices; the border and how the problem eventually hits their neighborhoods and suburbs in the form of fentanyl and methamphetamine addictions; the out-of-control crime; education control and the lingering impressions after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.

What about the horrible open borders, food shortages, and grooming our children?

18 posted on 04/12/2022 5:47:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignorinbg reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: blackdog

You can’t fix stupid..

There has never been one ounce of evidence to support masking... NONE.

Every study ever done long before the kung flu and since has all concluded the same thing...

No statistical difference in transmissions, or outcomes from universal masking vs nobody wearing a mask.

That’s the science... but our public schools literally have created a huge swath of people who are utterly incapable of independent thought, and just obey.


19 posted on 04/12/2022 5:47:12 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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The democrats in the media now openly admit that masks are important if for no reason than virtue signaling and identity politics. They say it's important for people to show they are unified and connected to those in authority.

That was on live television yesterday. Unanimous agreement on the panel of six. Scary stuff we're seeing these days.

20 posted on 04/12/2022 5:59:12 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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