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

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I'm more interested in the DFL primary for House Seat 5B. Whoever wins that primary will win the seat two weeks later, and I'm reading on local blogs how the candidates range from progressive hero (like the vacating incumbent) to useless Moderate Hero.

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Actually agree with wormyguy for once.

How much did Obama get in this district by the way?

Well we nominated the right person in 5B too.

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I just calculated it. 76% for Obama. Real swing district.

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Here's a fun game, try to draw a district in South Philly as strong for McCain as possible.

It's tricky because there's a large black neighborhood right north of the Republican area in question, and even drawing around it takes you to Democratic white areas.

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42% McCain. This is the best I could do:

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I think the issue is more that there wasn't anything notable about this that required a new thread instead of the one we already have. Strong Democratic seat, Democrat wins. Not interesting. I didn't make a new thread about our special election which is another strong Democratic seat that should be easily held.

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I think the issue is more that there wasn't anything notable about this that required a new thread instead of the one we already have. Strong Democratic seat, Democrat wins. Not interesting. I didn't make a new thread about our special election which is another strong Democratic seat that should be easily held.

No, the issue was trying to make it seem like I said we'd win here, which I didn't. There were circumstances surrounding this specific election that set it apart from your special. Plus, that wasn't even a special, right? Wasn't it a primary? Totally not the same.

And I won't be making a new thread for the special in two weeks which is also a special election in February.

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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.

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I apologize in advance for this. I'm sure there's a few flaws, but I just wanted to make one of these, it's all in good fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38UITHPFdnM

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BRTD, you are one talented dude. That was awesome, just awesome!  You should relocate to a zip code that starts with a 9 - yes you should. You are missing your true calling as an "artiste" servicing cell phones, or whatever it is that you do in that ice box that you live in. Kudos.

Thanks. I've partially written some screenplays actually. The problem I have is tying them together. I write scenes better than stories. Maybe attempting the BushOklahoma saga may help with that...