“Neither an event featuring Bill Clinton, nor Hillary Clinton’s fundraising help was enough in Marglies’ effort to replace Rep. Allyson Schwartz. Schwartz gave up the seat to run for governor in Pennsylvania but also lost his bid.
Margolies served in the U.S. House from 1993 to 1995, but she failed to win re-election – largely because of her deciding vote in favor of then-President Bill Clinton’s budget bill.”
If you look at history, 1992 and beyond, the Clintons have either been ineffective or toxic when it comes to candidate endorsements.
Sometimes folks forget that even old BJ hisself never won a majority of votes for POTUS and likely would have lost both races if they were 2-way.
There were three candidates from Montco and one from Philly. The Philly guy won with the least amount of money but with very strong union support. He also was tepidly pro-life (while claiming to support Roe) so that gave him an advantage with Catholic Dems. The outgoing incumbent, Allyson Schwartz who tried and failed to gain the Dem gov nomination, was a pro-abort ghoul so this was the first contested Dem primary in some time with a marginally pro-life candidate, and the three Montco Dems tried to bash Boyle's abortion stance, and IMO it backfired on them.
And she lost to a pro-life guy!!