Posted on 02/13/2024 4:21:04 AM PST by cotton1706
Two special elections on the East Coast taking place Tuesday could provide some insight into what to expect up and down the ballot going into November’s general election.
In New York’s 3rd Congressional District, former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) is facing off against Republican Mazi Pilip following the ousting of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). The district, which includes parts of Long Island and Queens, has become more purple in recent years, increasingly favoring Republicans at the local level.
Further south in the Philadelphia suburb of Bucks County, Pa., Democrat Jim Prokopiak and Republican Candace Cabanas are competing to represent Pennsylvania’s 140th state House district. Bucks County is considered one of the country’s quintessential suburban swing districts and could provide intel about suburban and independent voters going into November.
Here are five things to watch ahead of Tuesday’s special elections:
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Get in ahead of the snow.
Won’t be well attended. There’s heaps of snow out there this morning.
I’m in Boston and the snow hasn’t started yet. Haven’t seen the weather yet around the country.
Unless they are Democrats. In which case, they should stay home for their own safety!
Beautiful Buck Hill Falls in the Poconos is looking at 12” before it’s done.
Ah, well. My mom told me the other day that this has been the loveliest February she can recall, in the northeast US. It was near sixty degrees at the time.
So I shouldn’t complain.
Global warming is our friend. :)
Fox13 here just showed Warwick, Rhode Island. The meteorologist said (since he grew up in Rhode Island) that he sat the that picnic table. Going to stay in the low 60s today in Tampa.
Too bad we got stuck with a nut case like Santos. I just hope the rat Suozzi gets beat badly.
That’s what Arlen Specter said in 1965 in his DA race.
You mean they can’t mail in the ballots?
I will never forget Election Day 2016. Many elderly people in my community, and they’re a clear majority in my voting district.
It looked like a feast day at Lourdes. Steely-eyed old people in wheelchairs, trudging to the polls on walkers and canes, or walking hand in hand, slow and steady, in a very red county, throngs of voters gathered to wallop Hillary and raise up Donald J. Trump!
It’s not actually Killadelphia, but it might just as well be. There has not been a Republican rep elected in that district in recent history. Several times the Rat ran unopposed. The most recent contested election (2020) went Rat 60/40.
NYS recently went all mail-in recently...
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/hochul-signs-new-york-s-vote-mail-law-stefanik-18378208.php
If NYS is so true blue, why bother, hmmmm...
It was glorious. Hopefully we see the likes of it again this November.
The district is not in Philadelphia; it’s in Bucks County.
It’s also not a “quintessential suburban swing district” as the poorly-written article suggests. This state House district is rated as D+8. A GOP is not impossible, just very unlikely.
When the Democrat wins tonight, the media (writing as stupidly as the MLS author of this article did) can breathlessly declare it a “bellwether” for November, as if the Democrats just pulled off some miracle upset in a district which actually heavily favors them.
Press fodder
Pennsylvania primary previously was in April, when the presidential candidates were already decided.
This is the first time since forever that Pennsylvania voters actually get to contribute to who will be the nominee.
Bucks county is filled with quintessential woke Karen’s. It includes the fat and ugly lesbian capital of the world, New Hope Pennsylvania. Only the filthiest, most scumbag liberal Republican can ever win Bucks County (see the odious cretin Patrick Fitzgerald). /spit
I used to get up your way. I was the one who kept Lewis Market stocked up on DiGiorno Pizza, and Haagen Dazs ice cream from 2011 to 2019. Small world.
Dems will win easily by 5-8 points.
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