According to another thread posted today here at DU. And he's supposed to be a moderate. You'd think he still had a chance.

His early resignation was unexpected, though. The new map isn't as friendly to Dent either.

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given Wolf is a fairly wealthy business owner and actually funded his entire campaign the last time and currently takes no salary either (nor does he live in the Governor's mansion for that reason). He literally flooded the airwaves with his ads the first time and that really helped people over here in the eastern part of the state, to get to know him.

But I suppose he could use some money to push the other crap ads off the TV. I don't normally have the TV on except if there is something critical happening but just today, while getting my car inspected and serviced, the waiting area had 2 TVs on and all I could do was the ads.

knocking the stuffing out of each other in the GOP primary. Mango has really tagged Wagner with a bunch of nasty negative ads. Meanwhile, Wolf has been running spots highlighting how he's worked to correct the priorities of the GOP's previous budgets. My sense is people are satisfied with Wolf and don't have any real reason to unseat him in Nov.

The Mango & Wagner crap that I saw today on the dealership TV was mind-numbing (and I had my iPad trying to post here on DU with that blaring in the background).

I think one (from either them or someone else running for something) was a whole vomitous run-on sentence of "Obamacare is bad" "I opposed Obamacare" pile of crap.

All I can hope for is that we really do make sure that Wolf gets back in so that we have someone there to temper whatever is going to happen with the 2020 census. That is how we got screwed before by ending up with Corbett in there during the 2010 census. Fortunately he became a 1-term governor.

my old school mates thought trump was going to reopen the coal mines, so they all voted for him!

Perhaps they are now learning how he operates, although I expect they will insist on "giving him more time".

Over here in the east, the GOP who voted for him know him more for his business attempts (that failed but that doesn't count ) and the 3 Atlantic City casinos he had. Plus of course, he was "Not-Hillary" or "Not-Obama" so that was a "plus" for them.

Then came trump.

and had originally been a Democrat many years ago until he ran for D.A. here in Philly in the '60s and won because he became a Republican running against "the machine" (and then eventually became a Senator).

But when he became a Democrat again during the summer of 2009 (and when Al Franken was finally seated after his grueling fight with Norm Coleman around that time too), that helped the party reach the 60 votes needed to get stuff through (notably part 1 of the ACA) without a filibuster.

The point is PA has sent GOP to the Senate and to the Governor's mansion before. I don't think they are 'red'. It has always been Philly, Pittsburgh and Alabama in between. Also,, I am convinced that the close election in PA was fraud.

Democrat/ Republican/ then back to Democrat during his last years. The middle, Republican years, were, by far, the longest period, so we generally think of him as Republican.

He lead the fight to confirm Clarence Thomas.

Obama and Hillary both lost ground in NE and SW PA. Those areas were the GENESIS of the American labor movement - the Molly Macguires fought against wealthy corporate coal and steel interests there. For decades they were blue. Then in the 80s and 90s came GOP radio and in 1997 Fox.

There’s an article on DailyKos saying NEPA shift from blue to red is the biggest reason Hillary lost PA. I promise that most of that shift is the result of GOP propaganda.


(That said, it took propaganda, voter ID, gerrymandering, voter suppression at the polls, and tons of GOP oligarch money to barely win in PA. Multiple factors contributed. But the propaganda influence is often underrated.)

(currently by ~800,000 but at one point ~2008, by 1,000,000). Problem is, the gerrymandering, voter roll purges, and eventually-tossed Voter ID law, made the state into a faux "red" state.

For the 18 congressional districts here, gerrymandering produced 13 GOP and 5 Democratic seats. Based on registration, it should have been 10 Democratic seats and 8 GOP seats, or at least 9 Democratic seats and 9 GOP seats. This is how they stole this state.

Imagine that.

Their us house outlook so far has 201 Democrats safe or leaning. Thats already a likely pick up of 11 seats without flipping any tossups. Getting about half the toss ups will square away the house for us.

And NJ could go completely Blue in house races.

It was the Mt. Lebanon Democrat’s first time walking through the Capitol without an aide to guide him through the sprawling complex of government buildings connected by hallways and tunnels that all look alike.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2018/04/17/Conor-Lamb-washington-congress-freshman-Syria-mid-term-tim-murphy/stories/201804170178