PA 13

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The four year anniversary of this classic thread. Amazing.

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I really wanted to revitalize this classic thread.

Will Obama carry it?  I think that is the billion dollar question.

Yep but it will be close.

As for the Congressional race itself, this will be the second time that I won't be voting for the GOP nominee. I'm writing in a local State Representative again (but a different guy this time).

Who is the GOP nominee for PA-13?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Republicans badly overreached in trying to make PA-13 a competitive district for 2002.  Doing this made PA-06 lean Democratic in national and increasingly in statewide elections.  If Republicans had put the portion of Montco currently in PA-06 in PA-13 and put all of the few heavily Republican townships(if there are any clusters that went for Bush with 55%+) in PA-13 in PA-06, Jim Gerlach would have by about ten points in 2002, 2004, and 2006 rather than just two. 

Believe me, I know.

Cue to ICE HOCKEY to state how the Perzel plan backfired... 

You have to understand that the idea was to make Borski run against Hoeffel in the primary in 2002 (which he likely would have won because of his strong base in the NE compared to Hoeffel's weak support in Montco). This would have set up a more favorable battle for us in a Brown vs. Borski race. Brown would have still had appeal here but would have won Montco fairly easily.

My question is what the heck we are going to do when Jim Gerlach decides to retire in PA-06. I mean that district was created just for him and when he retires is there anyone that could prevent its loss. If that happens we will never gain back a majority in the Pennsylvania congressional delegation.

I would say Obama wins PA 13 by 12%  and 6 by 7% or more.

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What exactly is this? I was reading through this thread and this statement caught me off guard. Phil is praising Bob Casey Jr.?

That was from when I was stupid.

I have made it very clear that Bob Casey, Jr. used to be my favorite Democrat. Looking back on that State Treasurer race, which included Casey, Pepper (the RINO odd ball) and our very own Daryl W. Perry, I would have skipped the race (as I did this year).

Of course Phil left out the part where Casey jumped into a Senate race, which Phil claimed he didn't want or wouldn't win, and beat his most beloved politician in the whole world, by the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent since George McGovern lost his 1980 reelection bid.

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What exactly is this? I was reading through this thread and this statement caught me off guard. Phil is praising Bob Casey Jr.?

That was from when I was stupid.

I have made it very clear that Bob Casey, Jr. used to be my favorite Democrat. Looking back on that State Treasurer race, which included Casey, Pepper (the RINO odd ball) and our very own Daryl W. Perry, I would have skipped the race (as I did this year).

Of course Phil left out the part where Casey jumped into a Senate race, which Phil claimed he didn't want or wouldn't win, and beat his most beloved politician in the whole world, by the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent since George McGovern lost his 1980 reelection bid.

Uh...I don't know what's up your ass but I don't know why I'd have to include that part. I think it's pretty damn self evident. But, hey, thank you for doing that. We all know how necessary it was. 

By the way, we can't argue with proof that Casey wanted it or not but pretty much everyone here would agree that he didn't truly want it.

Oh I agree he didn't want that job. But his disinterest wasn;t enough for him to resist pressure to run from the Democratic party. I mentioned that little tidbit b/c ever since 2006 your dislike of Casey has grown significantly.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I mentioned that little tidbit b/c ever since 2006 your dislike of Casey has grown significantly.

Well, thank you for stating the obvious. Next post will be, "Phil failed to mention that he voted for Santorum."

So what I would have too if I still lived in PA. I don't intend to make another post about this I would prefer it to be dropped. I don't know why you had to drag this thing out.