PA-12 Special Election/PPP: Democrats risk losing seat to the Republicans

[minionofmidas]

Dem polls says GOP +3
GOP Poll says Dem +8


This is interesting.

PPP is hardly a Dem pollster.  If anything, there polling has erred in favor of the GOP. 

Yea the irony is weak but its still irony, and I am a sucker for it.

Anyway, they have also erred period. Hoffman +15 ring a bell? Yet they got Brown right. We will have to see what happens.

We'll have to just lay back and try to enjoy it.

[Brittain33]

Mark Halperin and Chuck Todd on Hardball last night were talking as if both sides were expecting a Critz victory. The Republicans are pre-spinning by saying that they didn't settle on an effective message for the campaign. I find this surprising, myself. There must be some good internals because I see no reason to assume Critz is going to win.

[Badger]

Mark Halperin and Chuck Todd on Hardball last night were talking as if both sides were expecting a Critz victory. The Republicans are pre-spinning by saying that they didn't settle on an effective message for the campaign. I find this surprising, myself. There must be some good internals because I see no reason to assume Critz is going to win.

Best news I've heard all day.

Particularly as I agree with your last sentence.

[Brittain33]

Best news I've heard all day.

Particularly as I agree with your last sentence.

I should note that the pre-spinning came by way of Halperin so is considerably less significant than a firsthand source would have been.

[Brittain33]

More tea leaf reading favorable to Dems here. TPM is a Democratic source but I don't consider them to be unrealistic about electoral outcomes.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/confident-dems-goad-gop-by-calling-pa-12-a-must-win-for-republicans-today.php

I'm still going to take this as reassuring without actually believing it.