Well at least we made the Dems pour money into this race. We need to do that for every race.

Thats a bite in the ass, but lets hit it again in Nov

We Are.... Penn State

We Are.... Penn State

Posted by: rthor at May 18, 2010 10:34 PM (tE8Ul)

Happy Valley is stuffed to the gills with liberal loons.  So there.

#20

I think thats fair.  I won't be giving a dime to district 12 in November though.  I'd rather give to people who aren't stuck in 1948.

19  fubar

Oh wellah  They still were red last election (Centre County)

too many guns and hunters!!!  last bitter clingers

xin loi

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 18, 2010 10:33 PM (c0A3e)

Christ....

PA-12 acted stupidly.

I grew up there, I get to say that.  Murtha was elected two years before I was born.  Until that nasty old bastard died, I'd never known a time when he wasn't in Congress.

OT, anyone wachitng FoxNews?  Christ, Greta's show tonight is practially a free campaign commercial for McCain.

Posted by: politicalmuse at May 18, 2010 10:42 PM (kLKnf)

Prison Planet or InfoWars...Take your pick.

Posted by: Obama at May 18, 2010 10:42 PM (GfYt/)"

Someone called them Steelworkers...hasn't that industry been decimated in America?  Oh, I get it, they are all living on their union pensions and health care...and they are still voting according to what the union tells them to do.....

Ace

Burns didn't run as a tea partier.

Critz ran as more of a conservative than Burns. I've been watching the ads for days

Piss on Jimmy

Our man was "Tony the Pro' Provanzano from New Yawk

Teamsters "and the annuity" rule

This isn't a surprise.  Personally I would have been shocked if Burns won.  Unfortunately the Dem machine is pretty powerful in that district and hands out favors to anyone in exchange for votes.  And yeah, the people are either Liberal loons or idiots who believe the pie in the sky crap promises the Dems throw at them. 

Aa for the Specter/Sestak race,  that was a tough call.  I hate Specter but he would have been easier to beat in November.  Of course now all the big shots in the Dem party have to backtrack their support for Arlen over Joe, so that should be fun to watch.

The other one to watch is the GOP winner in Dahlkemper's district.  This could be a pick-up in November with the right candidate.  Dahlkemper is only popular in her hometown of Erie.

Too bad for Burns, but I don't think it is the bellweather that some people think it is.  I swore I heard the dems out register repubs 2 to 1 here, but I guess other have put me the info.

Someone called them Steelworkers...hasn't that industry been decimated in America?  Oh, I get it, they are all living on their union pensions and health care...and they are still voting according to what the union tells them to do.....

Yes, the registration figures are absolutely true, although there is a pretty deep streak of social conservatism... which is modulated by the union-and-new-deal economic attitudes there.  (Not just steelworkers.  Coal miners, too.  You'd think they'd realize that the coal and steel industries were decimated by union costs, but the media and educations systems back home suck too.)

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 18, 2010 10:49 PM (lf/rr)"

They are the upper East Side with uber money....and there is a huge hispanic population that is sort of unseen...

They will think this guy is creative and will do whatever it takes to take care of them, since it is only they who really matter

Batchelor described CT as "the place where the hedgies live"

Burns got in late, and he did not go for the jugular with Critz.  Burns was way too polite.  Critz received money from Pelosi, why the heck didn't Burns make a commercial asking the voters can they trust a man to vote against the radical Pelosi and the Messaih when he has received money from these radicals?

Posted by: Schwalbe at May 18, 2010 10:47 PM (8r4UA)

With Ogabe's suck boys in charge of the Census???

Really???  Yeah...there's gonna be some 'redistricting' alright....

With 93% in Burns is still down by 7.5%. I don't know who the pollsters were in that race but they were more of a failure than even Burns was.

That district is 2-1 Dems and voted for a congressman that called them not to bright and racist. I'm done worrying about that district. Murtha is gone, that's all that matters.

If only I had acted sooner.  My bad.  I was busy in Utah endorsing Bob Bennett.  I'm planning a swing into Hawaii to endorse Chester Joo though.  Vote Joo!  A true conservative. 

(I am leading in the latest New Hampshire poll.)  Better get onboard morons.

Posted by: Ben at May 18, 2010 11:04 PM (DKV43)

According to the state website there is no Blair County in PA 12

I'm announcing tonight that I am declaring myself a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the great state of Florida.

And tomorrow, I'm introducing legislation in the Senate that will change the name of the state of Florida to Pennsylvania.

there is no momentum for the GOP.  burns got annihilated and this race was regarded as a toss-up, with many predicting a victory.

the GOP will gain 4 Senate seats and probably 35-40 house seats.

Again, there were no major statewide republican races. The Democratic turnout was higher because of the competative governor race and because of the sestak Specter election.

about 800 thousand voted in the dem senate primary and 500 in the republican. In november there will be a bigger republican turn out.

don't fret just yet.

When are the results for the Hawaii election?

ooh I forgot about that.

Posted by: Smapty at May 18, 2010 11:09 PM (bAySe)"

Actually it's a great opportunity.  If you have the right people analyzing every move and figuring out where you failed to reach the voters you can correct those errors.  I mean, the loser is always motivated to be the winner.  The winner always has in the back of their mind that they will of course win again so they don't try as hard the second time around.

robtr

its the Altoona area I believe

Even National Review Online is calling this a "disaster" for the GOP and a bad omen for November

oh god, not the national review.  I mean there is no way that the Rich Lowery types have a vested interest in keeping the republican party out of the hands of the lumpen proles and safely in the hands of the establishment.

I fail to see how this is a big loss.

Specter, the Dem endorsed candidate lost. Sestak is a closeted lefty who will be outed. He is too pro choice to cut it in Catholic PA. The Hawaii election isn't in. Blanche Lincoln will probably win, which will give the Republicans an easy target.  Richard Blumenthal gave a speech today at which one of the "Vietnam Vets" he hugged and stood behind him is apparently a Stolen Valor type as well who is a fake soldier. Here in PA , the former Club for Growth President and right winger Pat Toomey will be our candidate for Senate, and AG Tom Corbett who is suing the Obama admin concerning the Mandate in healthcare will be our candidate for governor.  And the only down side is Tim Burns lost to Mark Critz, who ran as more conservative than Tim Burns.

all in all it wasn't a bad night.

 I don't get it, if Burns couldn't win this time, how will he win in November? What will change?

read the comments.

Republican turnout in November will be higher. There were no major state wide republican primaries races.

The senate and governor race were both essentially uncontested.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at May 18, 2010 11:25 PM (HfesM)

Not good, and everyone I know is voting against him, and I mean everyone!

However, he does have a boatload of money.

Blair County is in PA-9, Bill Shuster's district.

Blair and Cambria are WEIRD.  They're practically demographically identical, but Cambria is 2-1 Democratic, and as soon as you go over the mountian into Blair, it's 2-1 Republican.

The only real difference is that Johnstown was a steel city surrounded by coal towns, where most of the Altoona area was rail-centric.

Posted by: Jehu at May 18, 2010 11:45 PM (KoT0h)"

John, I copied and pasted from drudge so I thought it was odd the way it came up lol...

I'm not a ron paul fan at all, in fact some of my dem friends are crazy about him....but I did like his son, I liked what I saw....

Posted by: snapdragon at May 18, 2010 11:41 PM (5Etcj)

Assholic question.  The money returned to the states was confiscated from taxpayers through the process of taxation.  It's there own fucking money.

Regarding Burns and other Dem districts, to win the Republicans need a wave.

But when the Republicans won't fight Kagan, won't maintain a fillibuster on the financial reform bill, and generally act like losers in the Senate, how can they win?

Rand Paul wins big in Kentucky and defeats the establishment candidate.  And got to give the Dems credit, at least they put a bullet in Spector, something the establishment Republicans never had the balls to do.  And Bennet loses in Utah.

We are seeing Republican leadership, but it is at the governor level in NJ and AZ.  When the Republicans in Congress (particularly the Senate) wake up, we can start winning these districts.

This might be good.  Maybe the Repub. Senate leadership might wake up in time to stop bad bills/appointments by fillibustering and rally folks in Nov.

One place to start is the slogan for November should be one word--REPEAL!!

Posted by: snapdragon at May 18, 2010 11:41 PM (5Etcj)

Are we just talking Pennsylvania here fuckhead??

Wait, yer dumbass is probably in California...

Breaking...

Arlen Specter takes five people hostage at Pittsburg Dunkin' Donuts.

Posted by: RarestRX

if that district were a rorschach test, i would be locked up as a danger to society.

In the '90s I went to school in Pittsburgh, and I met a number of undergraduates from Murtha's district, i.e. Johnstown PA area. Some were salt of the earth, but a disturbingly high number had sociopathic tendencies. They'd smile, charm, shake your hand, but when it came time to trust them, forget it.

Maybe having their town destroyed by some rich peoples' poorly-maintained artificicial lake back in 1889 still resonates down to today with Johnstown  people. And the steel industry labor vs. management dynamic in SW Pennsylvainia was still bad enought in the 1980s that masked union activists did things like invade the birthday party of  a steel executive's child and throw stink bombs everywhere.

I could easily see people in the Johnstown area venerating a man who brought home the bacon from D.C., and not put much more thought into it than that.

If anyone from Johnstown is offended by this, I would just like to say to the good ones that you know who you are, and the rest of you can go piss up a rope.

Yes, I got burned a few times.

In the '90s I went to school in Pittsburgh, and I met a number of undergraduates from Murtha's district, i.e. Johnstown PA area. Some were salt of the earth, but a disturbingly high number had sociopathic tendencies. They'd smile, charm, shake your hand, but when it came time to trust them, forget it.

Maybe having their town destroyed by some rich peoples' poorly-maintained artificicial lake back in 1889 still resonates down to today with Johnstown  people. And the steel industry labor vs. management dynamic in SW Pennsylvainia was still bad enought in the 1980s that masked union activists did things like invade the birthday party of  a steel executive's child and throw stink bombs everywhere.

I could easily see people in the Johnstown area venerating a man who brought home the bacon from D.C., and not put much more thought into it than that.

If anyone from Johnstown is offended by this, I would just like to say to the good ones that you know who you are, and the rest of you can go piss up a rope.

Yes, I got burned a few times.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at May 19, 2010 12:11 AM (tm15w)

Sometimes you need to know when to hold 'em and sometimes you just need to know when to fold 'em. 

Murtha called his own constituents a bunch of racists and proceeded to win easily.  The district gives about a 25 percent approval rating to Congress but just installed a guy who will vote with that same very Congress about 80-90% of the time. 

At a certain point, you just need to realize, it's not you, it's them.

Posted by: theworldisnotenough at May 19, 2010 12:06 AM (QOBVx)

Wait until they figure out it's finished.  The Murtha airport will probably be mothballed, soon.  They were buying seniority and a lowlife criminal with Murtha.  With Crist, all they get is the lowlife criminal part.  That seniority and spot on Appropriations is long gone ...

154

I made him cry.  He tried scoring Noonan once.  It was classic.  I alerted Peggy to the hidiously wrinkled trousers he was wearing.  It got ugly.  Before long he was bawling on Brooks' shoulder. 

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 19, 2010 12:48 AM (Qp4DT)"

don's you think that these results will make people realize that there are no easy wins and that there is a lot of hard work to be done before people can rest assured.

I was in PA-12 recently, in Burgettstown in partcular.

My grandfather was a coal miner. I lived there as a first and second grader waaaaaaay back.

 It was depressed even then, as the mines played out and the steel industry around Pittsburgh started to tank.

It's a lot worse now.  Portions of "downtown" Burgettstown are now abandoned and boarded up.  An air of decay and despair hangs over the place.

Every teenager unlucky enough to live there, lives only to get the frack out of his loser ghosttown at first opportunity.  Almost everything he sees in the movies and on TV has nothing to do with him, stuck in a post-industrial wasteland.

But the old folks are completely dependent on unions and the dole, and they loved Murtha and his scraps of pork.

As they will say to you: have another Yuengling, and chill.

p.s.  In thirty years Murtha's airport might become useful.  If that happens some journo will approvingly quote a Dem party hack about how "foresighted" Murtha was.

don't you think that these results will make people realize that there are no easy wins and that there is a lot of hard work to be done before people can rest assured.

Posted by: curious at May 19, 2010 01:00 AM (p302b)

I think turnout was extra light.  I had problems getting information, myself.  Washington got crushed, outside of the pork slobs in PA-12, but I never counted that as a win.  I think that the Dems lose a ton in November, but I think it's too late, anyway.  This train left the station in the 2008 election.

To me, the question becomes one of what the states are going to do.  Given the fact that The Precedent and his junta have decided to try and ally with a foreign enemy, China, against Arizona says it all (for those who couldn't see what's been going on the whole time).  I don't think people have quite digested what this all means, yet.

And we sit on the razor's edge, with more than a few independent, external events able to push us over - especially since this administration (no matter the makeup of Congress) will be pushing instability, without any safety net left, as our federal institutions are all plumb out of "faith and credit". I see very rough times ahead, and that's from the "glass is half-full" point of view

Posted by: Jehu at May 19, 2010 01:18 AM (KoT0h)

 You have it right.

Critz basically ran aganst Obama.  What we're really frustrated about is that the lies worked. We have to go after them as Democrats.  Otherwise, they'll elect the fresh faced hope 'n' changer all over again. We have to nationalize this election, but I can't be sad about this.  When they have to go full Stupak to win Murtha's district, it's a good sign.

It also means we have a lot of work to do.

but I think it's too late, anyway.  This train left the station in the 2008 election.

As a fellow eeyore, I agree.  My wake up call was in 2004.  A sitting President, in a time of war, for all intents and purposes won the election by 30,000? votes in Ohio.  Over a pathetic Mondale like opponent in John Kerry.

I think it's a slow decline, but who knows.

Keith Olbermann gives a respectful nod to Arlen Specter.

That tells you everything you need to know about Specter.

Posted by: curious at May 19, 2010 01:24 AM (p302b)

Not that I don't appreciate it, but I'm fine, you might have me confused with somebody else.

Posted by: curious at May 19, 2010 01:24 AM (p302b)

Not that I don't appreciate it, but I'm fine, you might have me confused with somebody else.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 19, 2010 01:28 AM (Vo2Ef)"

I'm sorry if I confused you with someone else....and now I can't remember who it was...wine and the ONT....lol

But, you've had a lot of prayers so I hope they bring something good....

But, you've had a lot of prayers so I hope they bring something good....

Posted by: curious at May 19, 2010 01:30 AM (p302b)

curious, it's a pleasant surprise and I appreciate it more than you know.

Big Rock Candy Mountains (original lyrics).

I will always think of southwest PA when I hear this song.

http://tinyurl.com/26f858s

@187

Hi Dan.  I can only speak for myself but I never predicted a huge Burns win.  In all honestly, I had noidea who would win.  Did you? 

Let me ask you another question?  Did your 'gina tingle when you voted for Obama?  When he gave one of his many speeches?  Did he get you hot?  Are you a man?  Or are you a liberal, sngle,empowered,BBW posing as one?

Or maybe you are Dan the Union activist?  Dan the Gay activist?  Dan the indoctrinated college student?  Dan the trial lawyer?

Good luck my friend, when the money runs out, and the evil white(or any other color for that matter...race traiters I believe you would call it) capitalists go down, you are screwed.

Come to think about it, I bet "Dan" will claim to be a reasonable centrist in a world of crazed right wingers.

Are you a centrist Dan?

I think it's a slow decline, but who knows.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at May 19, 2010 01:24 AM (8OTio)

I wasn't referring to the electorate but to the process.  I think that the US' fate, as an intact nation, was sealed on Nov 4th, 2008.  The country committed itself to a process, intentionally, that would spell the end of the nation as it has existed.  We saw that being carried out in how The Precedent and the dems raped the federal government and turned it against the citizenry and the very concept of America.  And, while it required the participation fo the dems, they were not the ones that did the damage - much of which is just effectively irreparable.  It was the Indonesian Imbecile and his absolute contempt for our system and our nation, or to put it more Constitutionally, his utter contempt for ourselves and our Posterity. 

The Precedent desired nothing more than to destroy this nation (taking himself down in a suicide run to do it) and, with the neo-pravda media an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of anything he wanted to do, I didn't see the country living through that.  There were a few chances to stop it, the best being the fact that he was ineligible, but there were just too many cowards around to take that one possibility.  That is what we have been witnessing over the past year and a half.

He made it almost impossible to grow out of the monetary disaster and wrecked our legislative processes and faith in our institutions, as well.  There was another slight sign of light shining through, as we killed the health scare over and over and over, but the Indonesian Imbecile's contempt for our system allowed him to push the process far beyond the breaking point, and the dems joined him on the crusade.  At this point, no matter who holds Congress (now a broken institution) it just wouldn't matter.

So, it comes down to the individual states and how they decide to handle this situation. 

You are correct about the pathetically close election in 2004 - Bush should have won by 8 or 10%.  As it was, he only won because he refused to surrender in Iraq - though he refused to fight full force, even after that, as Bush was always scared to kill civilians in war, which any examination of history tells us is always part of war, especially when fighting against a tribal enemies.  But, the fact that America rejected surrender with Kerry was still a shining point of 2004.  After that, though, the shamnesty came and that was the end of the GOP.

But, even so, 2008 was qualitatively different.  An ineligible America-hater who had no American sensibilities, in the least, was voted in, and that was a point of inflection.  A very dark inflection point.  From then, it was just a matter, to me, of seeing how things split up.  That's been my view of developments, adn it hasn't changed, except to be reinforced by the actions of The Precedent, the neo-pravda media and the useful dem idiots in Washington.  This is why Rush wished that The Precedent would fail, I surmise, because that is why I hoped he failed.  But, he didn't.  He got most of his crap through and was able to move policy and foment chaos in many areas.  His retardation didn't even hinder him much, because the useful idiots were so useful. 

So, now we are left to try and manage the free fall in some way that will preserve somethign of the American creed.  I am still optimistic about this - I am a believer in Manifest Destiny for the US, the chosen nation, as it were - but I don't look for it in elections to federal positions.  I look for it in the actions of states.

That's how I see things, at least.

@70: "there is no momentum for the GOP"

There never was.  In large part, people hate both parties.  The Dems will lose more because they hold more, but neither party is really connecting with the American people.  Each simply assumes that they are because their polls tell them that people hate the other party more.

Hell, the way that the global economy is going, it really won't matter much anyway.  Whoever wins in 2010/2012 just gets to preside over the collapse.

The Dems are going to run a "Granholm" campaign in 2010 and 2012.

Jenny won reelection easily in 2006, in spite of the fact that the economy was f**king horrible in Michigan. 

Her entire campaign was to attack Dick Devos as an evil businessman who wanted to ship jobs to China.

In dumb-f*ck rust belt states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, this nonsense works like a charm. 

The citizens of my state, Michigan, are so f**king stupid, don't be surprised if they vote Democrat again (for governor).  All it takes is a few ads portraying the Republican as a lackee for big business.   You don't get to be number 50 in employment by being pro-business.

Posted by: replica shoes at May 19, 2010 05:46 AM (KoAW3)

To you too, dear friend.

Guys, this district is so gerrymandered its not funny.  Every rebpublican area is cut around so that its nothing but libs.  If I lived another mile one way or the other, I would be able to vote in the 12th, but since too many republicans live in my area, they cut the district line right around us.

If they have to spend any money to keep the seat, its a loss for them.

Posted by: Filly at May 19, 2010 03:02 AM (dSJW9) 

Blanche significantly underperformed.  The polls had her winning by at least 5, and the final was 43-42.  Early counts had her up 49-37, with 50+1 needed to avoid a runoff. 

Meanwhile, Boozman coasted and will not face a runoff.

Blanche is toast.

Posted by: Ed Anger at May 19, 2010 07:47 AM (7+pP9

(_X_)

PA-12

Someone explain to me  of what cities/towns/history this district is composed? It's not urban is it? Why is it so 'tard?

What a pain in the ass. At least another 6 months with no Bengay.

Someone explain to me  of what cities/towns/history this district is composed? It's not urban is it? Why is it so 'tard?

Posted by: dagny at May 19, 2010 08:55 AM (HUIx1)

Michelle Obama and Mrs. Zavala will visit an elementary school in the Maryland suburbs of Washington with students from Central and South America on Wednesday morning. That is the picture of the day the East Wing wants.

Is the WH confused about where Mexico is located?

JohnstownÂ’s citizens mobilized to achieve a permanent solution to the flooding problem and wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt pleading for Federal aid. Starting in August 1938, continuing for the next five years, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers gouged widened, deepened, and realigned 9.2 miles of channel in the city, and encased the river banks in concrete and reinforced steel.

FDR "saved" them. Case closed.

You do realize that Fast Eddie Rendell will do everything in his power to keep that seat in Democratic hands, don't you?

I mean, gerrymandering isn't just for kids anymore....

When does the redistricting happen? Rendell is done as of January, and it looks like we'll have a Pub gov.

Angry voters or voter anger

Seems to the popular headlines today. Funny when libs win it's always for positive reasons but conservatives or Republicans only win due to anger

Posted by: section9 at May 19, 2010 09:05 AM

Rendell's term ends this year.  He can't run again for 4 years, so I imagine he'll be hoping for some kind of job.  He may not care any more, he's one selfish politico.  But I wonder if Obama will be interested in giving such an ardent Hillary backer any position in his admin.  That all said,  things look fairly good for Corbett the Repub governor candidate.. 

but conservatives or Republicans only win due to anger

Yeah, because no one was pissed at Bush, McCain, or Nixon

They have read it. They have to say they haven't read it so that they can continue to misrepresent it. I can't believe anyone is falling for that shit. Or they haven't read it and have no intention of reading it because they don't want to know what is in it.

Back at Bush v. Gore, all the idiots insisted that the opinion was 4 to 5. The decision was 7 to 2, but the remedy was 4 to 5. I always asked, did you read it? The answer was always no because they didn't want to know or they couldn't read, maybe. Idiots.

Posted by: Count Chocula at May 19, 2010 10:02 AM (x9okW)

Posted by: Count Chocula at May 19, 2010 10:02 AM (x9okW)

I might be wrong, but my understanding of that situation leads me to suspect that you're comparing apples to oranges there, like, for example. I read or heard somewhere that, unlike his father, Rand isn't opposed to our participation in NATO, and he isn't an isolationist either, and their other ideas on foreign policies differ, also. It's only on domestic policies that their views are somewhat similar.

JohnstownÂ’s citizens mobilized to achieve a permanent solution to the flooding problem and wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt pleading for Federal aid. Starting in August 1938, continuing for the next five years, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers gouged widened, deepened, and realigned 9.2 miles of channel in the city, and encased the river banks in concrete and reinforced steel.

FDR "saved" them. Case closed.

Posted by: dagny at May 19, 2010 09:30 AM (HUIx1)

And yet the city flooded again in 1977 and 38 people were killed. The city was built in a narrow valley, almost a gorge. The landscape was built for flooding. And people live in it voluntarily.  Interestingly, I noticed that the smart ones tended to come from the surrounding hills.

I think people in Johnstown, including the geezers, are at best only dimly aware of who FDR was.

are at best only dimly aware of who FDR was.

It's really a shame that they eliminated the literacy requirements for voting.

It's really a shame that they eliminated the literacy requirements for voting.

Posted by: dagny at May 19, 2010 10:28 AM (HUIx1)

¿Qué?

Oh good God.

Mexican President Calderon rips Arizona immigration law at opening remakrs of state visit.

Expect Obama to apologize for it in 5, 4, 3, 2,.........

Posted by: Darth Mallamutt at May 19, 2010 10:32 AM (OWjjx)

Calderon walked onto the scene knowing in advance that a diatribe against his hosts would be accepted, even welcomed.

NOW BRING ME THE GAVEL HEAD OF NANCY PELOSI!

Posted by: Darth Mallamutt at May 19, 2010 10:23 AM (OWjjx)

FIFY

Mexican President Calderon rips Arizona immigration law at opening remakrs of state visit.

Expect Obama to apologize for it in 5, 4, 3, 2,.........

Posted by: Darth Mallamutt at May 19, 2010 10:32 AM (OWjjx)

Maybe he was just reading off of Barry's teleprompter

This was one guy losing to another guy in one gerrymandered Dem-held district.  To place too much importance on it as a Republican vs Democrat bellweather is a mistake.

Republican candidates aren't going to win every race; nor do they need to- enough to take back the House by a solid margin will be enough to put the brakes on the Obama / Pelosi failtrain.

PA-12   [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Kathryn, I can't agree. For months now people have been predicting a Republican, or at least anti-Democratic, wave this year. That prediction, if true, should translate into Republicans' picking up open seats in socially conservative, McCain-voting districts. That it didn't happen suggests that we might get only a wavelet.

The republicans should come out with a new immigration policy.

1) Seal the border.

2) All who are currently here illegally must register within 1 year.

3) All new registrants must wait 20 years before being allowed to vote.( They did break federal law by being illegal, this is their punishment)

4) They must pay taxes.

5) If they commit a felony, they will be deported.

6) Anyone who is here illegally after the close of registration will be imprisoned for at least 1 year, then deported with no chance ever of returning legally.

7) Anyone found employing illegal immigrants will face a mandatory $1 million fine per worker.

Living in the 12th (or right next to it), I can tell you Russell's ads didnt mention Burns, he stayed away from damaging him for this special election.  That being said, the dems GOTV had sometime to vote for with Sestak vs Spector.  Critz ran as a republican (don't they all), but his record is going to be up for discussion next time around.

Like I said before, if the dems have to spend money here, they lose.