Posted on 11/04/2010 2:40:22 AM PDT by gusopol3
Those numbers from Philadelphia did not look good at all, and a ripple of alarm went through the war room late Tuesday. More Democrats than forecast had turned out to vote in the city, so aides to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey reworked their spreadsheets, looking for the path to victory.
At 10 p.m., Democrat Joe Sestak was holding a sizable lead in the closely watched contest - until, bit by bit, Republican areas reported in with better margins than the Toomey team could have hoped.
In the end, the Republican had an unassailable lead of 77,437 votes out of 3.9 million cast, or 51 percent to 49 percent, with 99 percent of the state's precincts counted Wednesday.....
Sestak partisans also attached blame to a surge in spending by third-party interest groups, freed up by a recent Supreme Court decision allowing direct corporate funding in campaigns.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Will be a tough state to win in 2012 when the black vote really comes out for Obama. Hopefully 2 more years of his BS will turn even more voters against him. Also, Sestak probably had much higher favorables than Obama.
Unfortunately, O’Donnell did hurt Toomey. They used her candidacy and association to beat him every chance they got, even to the point he semi-disavowed her. Why her long-ago comment about masturbation played such a prominent role while BO’s admitted cocaine use is unmentionable goes a long way to demonstrate how the media is stacked against Republicans.
Why her long-ago comment about masturbation played such a prominent role while BO’s admitted cocaine use is unmentionable goes a long way to demonstrate how the media is stacked against Republicans.
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Conservatives have a fair shake from FOX News, so long as the conservative view isn’t too far from the mainstream Republican view. We also have the Drudge Report, which is fair in it’s selection of stories tilting towards the entertaining over the important. We have Rush Limbaugh and a bevy of talk radio guys. We have the Free Republic and a set of self-referential bloggers and internet activists. We have Brietbart who I don’t know much about. We have the National Review and Human Events, Focus on the Family, and a few non-profits that have some reach. I’m listing them because it’s such a small sliver of the media compared to the daily papers nationwide, the local news, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, A&E, CNN, the weekly and monthly magazines and the weight of the mainstream media. It’s a rough road. I don’t think there is a single family friendly “traditional” network on the air in the entertainment space.
I think the NEA and AFSCME were running the exact same lie-packed commercial. This was the first time I ever heard rat advertisements on Rush’s show. Did they really think they could flip Rush listeners?
I’m apparently the only person who believes this, because I’ve floated the idea several times and had no takers, but I am firmly convinced that drive-time top-of-the-hour headline news is far and away the most important news source in the country. And there, even Fox radio news is just the AP radio service ( listen to Shep Smith during Hannity at 4 or 5 PM). I heard a discussion on NPR, of all places , yesterday afternoon between a Republican and Democrat pollster. The Democrat opined the the Democrats won the “low information” voter segment handily (at least she’s honest, we always hear about how smart and educated the Democrats are). I’ll bet that drive -time radio news on music stations is the only info they get, and listen to it! Last week, it was all BO campaigns here, there and everywhere with excerpts from his hackneyed speeches, which isn’t news at all. Yes, conservatives have a feast of information, but it is layered in redundancy on the same 20 % of the electorate.
The animus in the narrator’s voice made me want to walk up to the first teacher I saw and punch him in the nose.
It seems to me that you are onto something there.
Yep. Those people only get their information from ads, they never bother to understand the candidates. Nexttime, we’d have better luck advertising in STAR or National Enquirer.
I know such slime does mean too much to the very conservative voter....
The majority of us did dumb things in our past. Very few could come out of such a investigation with their past pure as the wind driven snow..
They gave him big admission of his power as a conservative when they did that knowing how many listeners he has. But insult him when ever they can and don’t need his program for their propoganda......its funny...
Great idea! “Is Bat Boy Toomey’s love child???” No, really, I agree with you.
Well Reps, we have the Gov office now in PA. The man needs to sort out the districts of Philly and the fraudulent behaviour there.
Dem. incumbent Chris Carney (PA - 10) ran vicious adds against Tom Marino, but lost by a sizeable margin even given his NRA support. The NRA looks pretty foolish now for having supported a fake blue dog. Carney looks even sillier for not having accepted the invitation by the Republican Party to switch sides. Very glad he didn’t. We just got rid of one RINO.
BINGO
The NEA and AFSCME running a commercial condeming “greed” was the height of irony.
This was a repeat of the Harris Wofford/Rick Santorum race in 1992 (I believe).
Wofford came out with a sizeable lead, thanks to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, leading many news agencies to declare him the winner.
Then the conservative counties started reporting and put Santorum on top.
It shows what happens when we get out the vote in the face of Philadelphia fraud....we can beat it.
Of course, now that we have majorities in Harrisburg, we MUST create voter ID laws and clamp down on the fraud.
If we stop Philly fraud, Pennsylvania will be a red state again.
The Dem turnout was 30% this year. If it had been higher, Toomey would have lost. Fortunately, he doesn’t have to face the voters again until 2016.
The anti-Republican radio ads by Democrat Patrick Murphy for PA-8 were really vile. He was blanketing the airwaves with them the week before the election. Sinister voice-overs about all the evil things done by Republicans and how they are going to cut government services — won’t touch defense, won’t touch Wall Street, but are going to cut your Social Security and Medicare. I’m very happy he went down.
It was NOT Christine O’Donnell’s words that did her in. It was the RATs (and RINOs) use of them to cast her as a nut. All the while ignoring her opponent’s “bearded Marxist” words.
Face it, RATs hate women, and especially Conservative women. They advocate violence; they smear without basis; they even attack their families. And women take it. Why?
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