IMMEDIATE RELEASE: IREY TO SEEK PENNSYLVANIA'S 12th CONGRESSIONAL SEAT (Murtha's)

Diana Irey for Congress Campaign | 3-22-06 | Diana Irey for Congress Campaign

[Coop]

Slim & none? - Last I saw, the dems have a 150,000 voter edge in his district.

Huh? Kerry carried this district 51-49, IIRC. She's got a legitimate shot. She wouldn't be running if she didn't.

[Coop]

If Ron Paul (who is far more antiwar than Murtha) can get 80 percent vote against a pro-war Republican in the primary, Murtha will have a cakewalk in Pennsylvania (at least if any opponent attempts to make the Iraq quagmire the issue).

And if I can fit in my jeans from high school Al Gore will win back his Senate seat.

[smoothsailing]

And if I can fit in my jeans from high school Al Gore will win back his Senate seat.

LOL! GO COOP!

:-)

[Coop]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1584238/posts?page=108#108

Hey Boss, I can't find a source for the 51-49 PA-12 results. Perhaps your linked post was my original source; I honestly can't recall at this point. PA's website only lists by county, and ex-Marine Murtha's district has portions of nine counties in it. Can you help? Thanks.

[WestSylvanian]

I'm in Murtha's district. He looks senile and silly and shrill to me. If she can mount a good campaign, she may be able to beat him.

Murtha is flat out calling Bush a liar. I don't think people in his district approve of his disrespect for the office of President. Murtha may be toast.

[writer33]

Real conservatives only on this thread ping!

:-) HA!

Sorry if you were already on the thread.

[Tribune7]

What a great day it would be if Murtha gets bumped. And I won't be surprised if he does.

[Killborn]

What about Replicas? ;)

[cubreporter]

Go Irey!!!

[smoothsailing]

I was gone for a while Coop, and missed your post.I remember finding the 51-49 breakdown and posting it somewhere on one of the Irey-Murtha threads with a link.

IIRC, I got it off the CNN website.Like you say,PA apparently only breaks it down by county.

I'll look around and see if I can find it.The 51-49 split is definitely accurate, I'm certain of that.

[beyond the sea]

Murtha is PAST TENSE.......... we are working in Johnstown!!!

[Valin]

I think I'm in love! well at least a strong case of like.

[writer33]

No Replicas allowed. :-)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Just A Nobody]

BTTT

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Coop]

The 51-49 split is definitely accurate, I'm certain of that.

I'm even more certain once I saw AuH2O had posted it. But I still haven't yet located a source. Thanks.

[blackie]

Be Ever Vigilant!

[AuH2ORepublican]

OK, I wasn't able to paste the image. But here's the info from that page of Barone's Almanac:

"Politically, this was one of the most Republican parts of America from the Civil War up to the 1930s. Republican policies, including high tariffs and hostility to labor unions, were seen as protecting jobs and increasing growth in the steel economy centered on Pittsburgh. With the coming of the New Deal, and success of the United Mine Workers and the United Steelworkers, the area began voting mostly Democratic. Since 1945, on the Monday before primary and general elections, Democratic pols from across southwestern Pennsylvania have attended the "rally in the valley" held at the Slovak Home in the mill town of Monessen. But it has not followed the national Democratic Party on all issues. Voters here have strongly favored trade restrictions on steel imports, even when most other Democrats were free traders in the 1960s and 1970s; more recently most House Democrats have been opposing free trade measures. Voters here also tend to take conservative stands on cultural issues and foreign policy. This carefully carved district voted 55%-44% for Al Gore in 2000. But after George W. Bush imposed import quotas on steel and boosted clean coal technology, the district voted only 51%-49% for John Kerry."

"2004 Presidential Vote

Kerry (D) 141,046 (51%)

Bush (R) 133,088 (49%)

2000 Presidential Vote

Gore (D) 131,960 (55%)

Bush (R) 105,451 (44%) "