We have an interesting special State House election tomorrow...

[J. J.]

53% White, 42% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Hispanic. 69% Owner occupied - I suppose it has some Black suburbia?

Darby Borough was 60% black in 2000; I'd suspect it would be higher.  When I lived in that section, there were a lot of Irish.

[J. J.]

Hey, he only lost by 88 points, that's pretty close.

Actually, in that area, it is a GOP landslide.  I voted in a special election bordering that district (they may overlap now, with redistricting) in the 1990's.  The Republican came in third.

In really bad weather, there was an outside shot for an upset.  The weather improved.

[J. J.]

I thought you were joking when you said the dem. won 94-6%. but, you weren't haha...
Yes, definitely, this was a surprising result. maybe it wouldn't have been if you hadn't made this thread xD

Given that Obama got 76% here apparently...  we might not have taken note, but somebody somewhere would have considered it surprising.

Or not. Depending on their take on the causes of South Philadelphia Republicanism.

With what Johnny said about him getting 15% in Delco, there might be something there. The Delco part only has about 16k people (though PA State House seats only have about 60k total), but is about 2/3 black, and was 91% for Obama. Meaning of course that it is far more Democratic than the Philly part.

Of course we don't know if this is a case of South Philly Republicans voting Democratic out of racism or simply not bothering to show up while Dem machine hacks did.

But unsurprisingly as it was greater than the Obama margin, J. J. is blatantly incorrect.

I was basically joking, but the Republican candidate came in third.  The state house, where it tends to be party based votes is usually higher.