PA-18 Special Election - Lamb by a nose

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College graduates were 50% of the electorate in 2016 nationally, and this district is more educated than the nation as a whole, so I don't understand why Cohn thinks it's so funny for 60% to be in this race (especially when coupled with college graduates being disproportionately represented in low-turnout contests)...?

Unless he thinks that age will be a much stronger factor than education (presumably a large percentage of 55+ in this district are not college graduates), I'm not seeing what's so wrong with that figure.

Because people think we're just a bunch of dumbass blue-collar workers . I honestly now understand the frustration of some Trump voters.

You're definitely not a bunch of dumbass blue-collar workers, but you're certainly not 60% college educated.

We are higher than the national average, and it's just one poll. College educated voters turnout more often. I'm tired that privileged white guys like Nate Cohn are so far up their asshole that they can't believe that we, in fact, aren't as dumb as a bag of rocks like they originally thought.

+1, 100% agreed

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Who's ready for the inevitable panic/elation over anecdotal turnout reports?

I for one am hyped for the atlas freak outs

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Apparently Axios claimed that the polls closed...

Thankfully no one reads Axios.....

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Saccone now favored in the needle. This is why you don't celebrate too early.

The entire thing is thrown off for better or worse by westmoreland not having any votes til 9:30

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So, where is the big Westmoreland dump?

Westmoreland is 77% reporting

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ALLEGHENY ALL IN.  LAMB BY 755.

They're saying 100% but unclear if this includes absentees. Greene is counting absentees tomorrow and says they are 100% reporting.

yep midnight or earlier
Oh good point.
Did Allegheny already count their absentees?
Are those votes already in with these totals?

Almost certainly not.

I've been catching up the last half hour and I think somebody said around midnight for Allegheny county earlier.

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Honestly I'm all in for a politico long piece about "the union democrats" - Sherrod Brown, Conor Lamb, Richard Ojeda.

100% agreed