West PA - Get out and VOTE for Saccone TODAY

[scruff]

The Libertarian in me also doesn't find Lamb that objectionable... No, let me rephrase that: I don't find what Lamb -says- that objectionable. Regrettably, I fear what he says and what he'll actually do if he gets in won't be at all the same thing.

Lamb could never have won a Democratic primary with his stated center-right positions. This model won't work for the Dems in regular elections.

[Hodgie]

1100 absentee ballots from Allegheny will be counted within 15 minutes, and 1200 from Washington & Greene Counties will be counted tomorrow. Wow. We're not going to know tonight.

Someone over there bring those lazy bastards a pot of coffee and tell them to get counting!

[KCJones]

Lamb could never have won a Democratic primary with his stated center-right positions. This model won't work for the Dems in regular elections.

Precisely. You could only get a candidate like Lamb in a special-election situation like this where the Dem party machine could hand-pick someone tailored for the district, AND without him getting beat up for his "DINO" conservative stances in the primary.

[scruff]

AP says they are NOT calling the race tonight.

[Billy Blaze]

This wait is torture ��

[Williamsmith]

I don’t know how you spin this any other way but a pendulum swing back the other direction. Not good for Republicans. I also think the progressives/liberals.....not the neoliberal democratic machine but the Bernie Sanders types are looking at the field and thinking....well now..........

[Emptymag]

This race was Trump vs Hillary.

Of course the angry mobs of liberals are out voting.
If you thought that Democrats mobilized, drove buses of people to the polls, and voted from the grave in the past, you ain't going to believe how much they step up their efforts after the Trump victory.

[KCJones]

This race was Trump vs Hillary.

I disagree. This race was more like Trump vs. Joe Donnelly e.g. - against someone at the far 'right edge' of the Democrats (at least in his statements and positions during the campaign).

Of course the angry mobs of liberals are out voting.
If you thought that Democrats mobilized, drove buses of people to the polls, and voted from the grave in the past, you ain't going to believe how much they step up their efforts after the Trump victory.

I agree here, and I'm not disputing that even if Saccone pulls out a squeaker, the closeness of this election is NOT a good sign.

[Emptymag]

Yeah, the "Hillary" part isn't even relevant - this as a vote against Trump and anyone who isn't a democrat is "Trump".
And anyone who is "Trump" is a racist, horrible, woman-hater, so...


Yeah, it's going to be bad for a long time.

[KCJones]

Yeah, the "Hillary" part isn't even relevant - this as a vote against Trump and anyone who isn't a democrat is "Trump".
And anyone who is "Trump" is a racist, horrible, woman-hater, so...


Yeah, it's going to be bad for a long time.

If that's all true, and yet it still comes down to "50/50" +/- a fraction for the winner in a district with far more registered Democrats than Republicans, I'm not sure it's that bad. Not to mention the 18th has flip-flopped party in every single election since 1971.

AND to do that, they had to run a candidate who's to the right of more than a few Republicans (at least his rhetoric) I could mention... a candidate that could never make it through a primary in a normal election.

So I don't LIKE it, but it doesn't feel like the dam breaking either.