PA GOV 2022: Stick a fork in it

[Duke of York]

heard the PA house has a chance to flip. Can anyone confirm?

[Pheurton Skeurto]

heard the PA house has a chance to flip. Can anyone confirm?

I have also seen rumblings, but nowhere that I've seen has confirmed it.

[President Johnson]

Rhetorical question: Has Mastriano yet conceded? Or any reaction at all from him?

[Pheurton Skeurto]

Rhetorical question: Has Mastriano yet conceded? Or any reaction at all from him?

https://twitter.com/dougmastriano/status/1590388872437182464?s=20&t=N4oyQPFT...

[Pheurton Skeurto]

It is important to acknowledge that, with Shapiro's election, Austin Davis will become the first black Lieutenant Governor in Pennsylvania history.

EDIT: Wow, just watched Shapiro's victory speech and I'm so excited for this man to be my Governor. Hopefully someday, he'll be our President

[wbrocks67]

I'm not gonna lie, I did have like a small worry that somehow the polls would be wrong-ish again and not get a secret Mastriano vote. VERY happy to see that that was wrong and the good people of PA rightfully rejected it.

Also some people didn't take seriously that Shapiro could do a Tom Wolf 2014/2018 type victory, and look where we are. Looks like he'll be right in the middle-ish of those two (+14/15)

[ctherainbow]

Looks like we're currently in the lead, or poised to take the lead with final mail-in ballot counting, in 102 of the 203 PA State House seats.  A flip would mark the first time in 12 years that Dems have won the majority in the State House.

[Pheurton Skeurto]

Looks like we're currently in the lead, or poised to take the lead with final mail-in ballot counting, in 102 of the 203 PA State House seats.  A flip would mark the first time in 12 years that Dems have won the majority in the State House.

Nut.

[Spectator]

And…it looks like with mail ballots that Shapiro has flipped Beaver County to his column. An exact replica of the 2018 gubernatorial map. Who woulda thunk!?

[wbrocks67]

And…it looks like with mail ballots that Shapiro has flipped Beaver County to his column. An exact replica of the 2018 gubernatorial map. Who woulda thunk!?

Not too surprising, given Wolf and Shapiro both very strong candidates and Mastriano and Wagner both horrific. The fact that Shapiro did it in a non-blue wave year though is even more impressive imo (and with Mastriano even being worse than Wagner)

[Rookie Yinzer]

IF Mastriano runs on the economy and Shapiro runs on "muh January 6th", then Mastriano will likely win. It doesn't matter how extreme he is.

LOL.

[Morning in Atlas]

Word on Twitter is that turnout for Mastriano will likely make the PA Gov result much tighter than results indicate, especially if Oz appears to me trailing by 2 instead of 4

[angus]

heard the PA house has a chance to flip. Can anyone confirm?

I have also seen rumblings, but nowhere that I've seen has confirmed it.

Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Democrats are "confident that they will flip the state house."

[Pheurton Skeurto]

Word on Twitter is that turnout for Mastriano will likely make the PA Gov result much tighter than results indicate, especially if Oz appears to me trailing by 2 instead of 4

Word on Twitter is that turnout for Mastriano will likely make the PA Gov result much tighter than polls indicate, especially if Oz appears to me moving out in front by a slightly larger lead.

[Duke of York]

Word on Twitter is that turnout for Mastriano will likely make the PA Gov result much tighter than results indicate, especially if Oz appears to me trailing by 2 instead of 4

Word on twitter isn’t a a reliable source.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Wolf won by 17 in 2018 so it's not heard of Shapiro winning by so much

[DaleCooper]

Word on Twitter is that turnout for Mastriano will likely make the PA Gov result much tighter than results indicate, especially if Oz appears to me trailing by 2 instead of 4

Word on Twitter is that 400,000 Pennsylvania Republicans followed Dr. Oz's medical advice and as a result were to ill to go out and vote for him on Tuesday, hurting Mastriano's margin in the process.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Shapiro already showing he's going to be a Chad Governor.

https://twitter.com/jjabbott/status/1591062849954381824?t=UXjqzI9wFPkVYalZvKmwkg...

[politicallefty]

Can we just appreciate some things here? Shapiro won Luzerne, almost won Lancaster, and held Westmoreland to a 6% margin. He also pulled off Obama numbers in Lackawanna. I always had confidence in Shapiro, but I never really thought about what the map would look like.

[Enduro]

Rhetorical question: Has Mastriano yet conceded? Or any reaction at all from him?

https://twitter.com/dougmastriano/status/1590388872437182464?s=20&t=N4oyQPFT...

The way he campaigned, and his asinine personality in general, should suggest that this is the closest thing to a concession that we'd get.

[Lechasseur]

Shapiro is absolutely a future Presidential candidate. People in the handshake line after the rally yesterday were telling him "Don't stop at Governor." He clearly has studied Obama and I would expect him to run in 2028.

Oh absolutely. I definitely see a potential future president in him too. He'd likely be the strongest candidate the Democrats could put up for 2028.

And for the first time in well over a decade, it looks like the Democrats will have a strong bench again.

[Roll Roons]

Mastriano officially concedes with a surprisingly gracious statement:
https://twitter.com/dougmastriano/status/1591925822268788737

[Progressive Pessimist]

Shapiro is absolutely a future Presidential candidate. People in the handshake line after the rally yesterday were telling him "Don't stop at Governor." He clearly has studied Obama and I would expect him to run in 2028.

Oh absolutely. I definitely see a potential future president in him too. He'd likely be the strongest candidate the Democrats could put up for 2028.

And for the first time in well over a decade, it looks like the Democrats will have a strong bench again.

Shapiro might be the white Obama, and we could really use one of those.

And then we also have Wes Moore, Jared Polis, and Gretchen Whitmer. Eh, Newsom too, I guess, but I think he would have the most problems.

[wbrocks67]

I'm glad Mastriano actually conceded but let's be real: he did not write that and it was also 5 days late. I'll give him credit for doing the bare minimum but still.

[Yoda]

Looks like we're currently in the lead, or poised to take the lead with final mail-in ballot counting, in 102 of the 203 PA State House seats.  A flip would mark the first time in 12 years that Dems have won the majority in the State House.

Any update on this? I saw on msnbc last night someone said it has come down to one house seat and there is currently a difference of ~100 votes. What is the current makeup of the state senate?