Lamb vs. Saccone Special Election PA18

NY Times ^ | March 13, 2018

[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.

[romanesq]

Conor Lamb leads by 2.5 percentage points over Rick Saccone with 83 percent of precincts fully reporting. Jump to estimate of final result ↓ Conor Lamb Democrat 87,453 51.0% Rick Saccone Republican 83,102 48.4

[Theodore R.]

Loss mow 4,351 with 87 percent of precints reporting

[MrChips]

Down to .6% with 84%

[JPJones]

This is a horse race!

[Religion and Politics]

Just 2500 votes now...

[tatown]

How many vote left out there? Seems like a fairly tall order.

[MrChips]

Oops I meant 2.6%

[NutsOnYew]

It’s now 50.5 to 49%

[snarkytart]

yep same feeling I got from Moore’s Alabama loss.
He was trailing all night except for three minutes, same as tonight. Lamb has been ahead all but a couple of minutes.

Donzo

[techworker]

So he needs to win Westmoreland by 2-3000 votes?

[Theodore R.]

Losing by 2,493 with 87 percent of precincts reporting

[NImerc]

Going to be close. Saccone down less than 2%. Still votes for him in Washington and Westmoreland.

[Revel]

Oh Come on... Democrat areas in PA are one of the vote fraud capitals of the US.

[techworker]

I count 1500

[romanesq]

There’s a bunch I heard but no expert on this. Just heard 200K was the anticipated tally.

Don’t bite nails but call on all higher powers to eek it out with your best prayers.

[Lagmeister]

Trump won this district going away. PA is getting what it deserves... or better: getting what it wants. The dem party is laughing at them.

[MMaschin]

Of course not!! How you think Brown won a Senate seat in MA?

When you only have ~30% turnout, either side can easily win, and which ever one is wanting to make a point (side in minority), will win!

This is no different than AL, yes they won, but the next regular election, we will win it back.

[romanesq]

“So he needs to win Westmoreland by 2-3000 votes?”

Couldn’t say because not sure what has come in and tallied there already.

[snarkytart]

oookay, but WHY aren’t we coming out after EIGHT years of misery?

[NImerc]

This district will not exist next election due to redistricting.