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Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« on: February 18, 2018, 04:00:47 pm »
 Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?

This 33-year-old Marine has a chance at winning one of the GOP’s most reliable districts.

By JIM SAKSA

February 18, 2018

HOUSTON, Pa. — “Jesus always started out by going and being with a certain group of people,” says Conor Lamb as we’re winding down hilly back roads to the Washington County Gun Show. It snowed a few inches in Southwestern Pennsylvania last night and, other than the highways we’re avoiding, nothing’s been plowed. While I’m silently saying Hail Marys as the campaign staffer driving whips around farms and fields, Lamb calmly continues explaining how his faith informs his politics.

Jesus, Lamb tells me, tried to get to know people as people before he tried to win them over with arguments. He “wasn’t asking people where they stood on abortion before they came and sat down with them.”

Lamb, the Democratic candidate in a neck-and-neck special election on March 13, has to hope the people of Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District will likewise listen to what he has to say before judging him by his party affiliation. In this part of the state, where highway billboards sport Bible verses and the start of deer hunting season is a holiday, Democratic politicians tend to flunk doctrinal tests. Even though registered Democrats technically outnumber Republicans here by 70,000, Trump won the district by nearly 20 percentage points. Mitt Romney and John McCain posted similar margins. Former Rep. Tim Murphy, the outspoken anti-abortion Republican whose seat Lamb is running to fill—Murphy resigned after reports that he encouraged his married mistress to get an abortion after a pregnancy scare—won eight straight elections, the first six by double-digit margins and the last two uncontested.

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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 05:54:49 pm »
Sure looks like it is.  The Dems keep picking off Republican seats in these special elections and it just makes it easier for them to retake the House and Senate by the time we go to vote in November.
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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2018, 11:54:22 pm »
This guy isn't running as a Rat in this seat. He came out today against gun control after this shooting. He wants current laws enforced. On the flip side the GOP is running some tired old man with nothing to say.

These special election loses say more about the quality of the GOP candidates than it does about some Trump backlash. In all of the loses so far, the GOP ran terrible candidates because they were legacies or next in line and not because they were good candidates.

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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2018, 02:56:05 am »
The republicans need to get their shit together already.
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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2018, 03:09:19 am »


These special election loses say more about the quality of the GOP candidates than it does about some Trump backlash. In all of the loses so far, the GOP ran terrible candidates because they were legacies or next in line and not because they were good candidates.

Exactly...and until they start putting up some young fresh faces this will continue to happen..the GOP is still considered the Party of old white men...
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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2018, 03:29:16 am »
I'll look for the article I posted a few days ago on FB that cites Lamb's anti-Israel comments.
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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2018, 07:13:40 pm »
Exactly...and until they start putting up some young fresh faces this will continue to happen..the GOP is still considered the Party of old white men...

They won't as long as McConnell and Ryan have control of the money.  They will continue to only help elect people that will be a sure vote for whatever they tell them to vote on.

And it's not gonna those "young fresh faces" you speak of.
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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2018, 09:14:51 pm »
Here we are:
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Conor Lamb Accused Israel of ‘Terrorism,’ Targeting ‘Innocent Civilians’
Democratic candidate complained that pro-Israel ad was published in college newspaper
BY: Brent Scher   
February 12, 2018 5:00 am
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Pennsylvania Democrat Conor Lamb wrote in a 2002 post on his college newspaper's website that the Israeli government committed "terrorism" and was intentionally targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The comments by Lamb, currently running for Congress in a special election taking place next month, were made in response to a pro-Israel ad published in the Daily Pennsylvanian, a University of Pennsylvania paper, which Lamb said was "disheartening to see." ...
Of course, now Lamb forgets he ever said it:
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Conor Lamb Says He Has ‘No Memory’ of Accusing Israel of ‘Terrorism,’ Targeting ‘Innocent Civilians’
Suggests comments that have been online for 15 years may be fake
BY: Brent Scher   
February 15, 2018 4:14 pm

Pennsylvania Democrat Conor Lamb said he had "absolutely no memory" of saying Israel was guilty of "terrorism" and intentionally targeted civilians, comments from 2002 revealed by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday.

Lamb was asked about the comments by an attendee of a Tuesday event at the South Hills Jewish Community Center who read aloud the full contents of Lamb's 2002 post on his college newspaper's website, which remains on the site. The attendee told Lamb "several members of the Jewish community" were "concerned" about Lamb's comments on Israel, which were sparked by a pro-Israel ad published in the Daily Pennsylvanian. ...
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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2018, 09:23:29 pm »
They won't as long as McConnell and Ryan have control of the money.  They will continue to only help elect people that will be a sure vote for whatever they tell them to vote on.

And it's not gonna those "young fresh faces" you speak of.

No. These races are more a reflection of the state parties than anything. I can tell you for a fact that the PA GOP is the most worthless group of slugs you will ever meet. They are the fine folks who are supposed to be getting younger fresher people into the game, but they don't. It's all cronyism and bullshit.

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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2018, 10:15:50 pm »
This guy isn't running as a Rat in this seat. He came out today against gun control after this shooting. He wants current laws enforced. On the flip side the GOP is running some tired old man with nothing to say.

These special election loses say more about the quality of the GOP candidates than it does about some Trump backlash. In all of the loses so far, the GOP ran terrible candidates because they were legacies or next in line and not because they were good candidates.

Wanna bet, if elected, Lamb will vote for gun control if the rest of the Rats do? 

You're right that Republicans in this state are worthless. They might as well all be Democrats. 

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Re: Is Conor Lamb the Next Big Democratic Upset?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2018, 10:23:16 pm »
Wanna bet, if elected, Lamb will vote for gun control if the rest of the Rats do?   

He will, but it doesn't matter. What matters is getting elected and this guy understands that.

Let's also not forget that the courts just imposed a whole new map for voting in PA because the GOP is too block headed to not openly gerrymander. A lot of phony GOP seats are going to be lost in this election just based on that. If this seat is lost it will be the state GOP to blame and no one else.