perhaps for tonight but she will have a lot problems in a runoff

with her and they will butt heads in what promises to be a bitter, nasty run off. Either way Boozman picks up this seat for the GOP.

Look, I understand you are putting a nice face on it because you are optimisitc and we can’t very well give up, but the spin doesn’t make sense.

If the candidate on the right is going to win, then why didn’t Burns win? I mean, if this proves you have to move right, then why wouldn’t the guy further to the right than Critz win?

I think it illustrates that the enthusiasm gap is closing and we can’t rest on our laurels about the rosy national numbers picture. These races will not be won because of the national numbers or what people think about Obama.

These House elections are going to be won or lost in the ground game. I think Burns lost because we are losing our fire. I sincerely hope we are not peaking too soon. I hope that some have not begun to relax and think we are just in 1994 all over again.

This will be different than 94. We have to win this war and not fight the last one.

Democrats are likely to get more urgent as we go forward and their turn out will likely be high by election day. Meanwhile our guys have been in the trenches since January 2009. We can’t let up! We can’t get tired. We can’t relax!

We don’t need to spin this race as a positive. We need to use it as a fire alarm to inspire the troops. Critz is what happens if we relax. This war is just beginning. It is certainly not over!

It seems about a week ago at least poll showed Burns ahead by several points. Republican enthusiasm was supposed to be high. What happened? Could it have been the Critz attack ads? How much did Burns fight back against them? Did they have a decisive effect, and if so, could he have done more to refute them?

He said he would vote for the healthcare bill, can’t get any more left than that.

This is what some of us have been working very hard for.
Lets have another happy dance.

Was that I couldn’t vote against Specter because he was on the side of the machine where the buttons would not light up…

It is funny that Lincoln or Halter even think that they have a chance at retaining this seat for the Dems. Boozman will take it in a landslide and finally break up the last Southern Democratic stronghold of Arkansas

I’ll be rooting for him just like I did when he played professional basketball.

as Specter was one of the main ones I wanted gone from politics. Accomplished.

Dare I say the number two guy on my list will be gone in November? Can we send Reid packing?

Then Pelosi. Can not get her this time, but can we get he donkey ass out of politics in just a few years?

The next two elections could go down, in my books, as the greatest elections of my life. I am starting to get overly excited.

Now I am starting to think we can get rid of Specter (done) and Reid this year followed by Pelosi. And then we get their master Obama.

I am so excited and thrilled at the potential I must go to bed with my wife now. No reason to waste such pure pleasure without sharing it!

Let’s see how much of an “independent voice” Critz is as Obama and Pelosi attempt to ram through as many socialist tax-and-spending plans as they can while they control Congress.

A word about turnout. Statewide the Democrats turned out more voters, by 168,000 in the Governor’s race and by 227,000 in the Senate race, due mainly to the more competitive elections. But their registration advantage in PA is huge, 51% of all registered voters are registered Democrats, only 37% Republican (an advantage of over 1.1 million for the Dems), 6% unaffiliated, and the rest assorted nuts and flakes.

Yet, a doctoral study done some years ago showed that while Pennsylvania registered Dems and GOPers and “others” (they lumped the rest together for the study) voted in similar patterns as to how often they voted across party lines most years which were closely competitive, but the movement towards the Democrats by Republicans and others in Democratic years was far less than their swing the other way in Republican years. IOW, Democrats and others are more likely to support Republicans in conservative years than vice versa.

This explains why the state was traditionally a battleground state. The recent trend towards Democrats since Reagan may say more about the state’s aversion to the Bushes (who combined New England high church Episcopal elitism with down-home Texas brass, both of which play poorly in Punxsutawney) than about their likelihood of electing a given candidate.

Lie your butt off. Pretend you are a conservative. They have used it very successfully in the last two election cycles. In most districts folks have caught on but apparently not in PA12.

Everything indicated that this was a winnable election but there was always the unknown variables like the cult of Murtha and the boundless capacity for Democrats to lie.

has been running ads AGAINST Lincoln for months. Not approved by Halter, Not contributing to Halter. Directly running their own adds. Now I realize that Arkansas is a cheap state to buy advertising, but if Halter takes the nomination from Lincoln, it means a new …farther left….will buy Newer, shinier progressive candidates to pave their way in Washington DC. Ones they can trust.

It is an overstatement to say that Obama campaigned for Specter – in truth, he ran from Specter like a flame when he had gotten from him what he wanted. All Americans should know the lesson of Benedict Arnold – one who acts the traitor will never be respected by those who benefit from his act of treachery.

Recalling what Gandalf said about the little fellow deep inside the mountain “He may yet have a role to play”, Specter, after stabbing the GOP in the back, was in turn stabbed by Obama.

Ungracious, whiny SOB that he is, he may just step up to plate and remind both of his parties of this ignoble truth.

for Toomey to defeat, IMO. This is going to be a tough, tough battle for Toomey.

for Toomey to defeat, IMO. This is going to be a tough, tough battle for Toomey.

If the O agenda rolls on through November we will be watching, verrrrry closely.

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We all have to remember that we are at the very beginning of this fight. And we have more than one enemy. We of course have to fight the Democrat party but we also have to fight the RINO’s which seems to be most, if not all, of the Republican party establishment. Let’s remember the British won all the battles early in the Revolution.

It was perserverance and I believe, God’s will, that won the war and it was our own complacency over the past 100+ years that has gotten us to this point now. We need to keep fighting and fighting and we also need to teach our children that they must also continue the fight or they will end up slaves and we will be the last generation to know what personal liberty is/was.

So let’s look at yesterday for what it was, a demonstration that we can win but that we can also lose, a demonstration that hard work and perserverance are necessary and that being on God’s side is the right place to be so that he will be on ours.

I can see the_invisible_hand’s point. Not just here (ie Hannity) it seemed it was really close. Combine that with a respectable poll showing a Burns one-point lead and then lose by 8-10 points you feel misled and disappointed. However it’s understandable that with that poll you want to move every vote for Burns you can.

In the big picture this really was an unusual election as all special elections are. Conservatives are winning the vast majority of races. Brown won after Hoffman’s disappointment, etc. But…

This should serve as a reminder that we can’t just take November for granted. Much like a sports team that is better on paper but still loses because they didn’t respect their opponent. We can’t forget that the media will exploit every opportunity to boost Dems / hurt Reps. I had worried about “peaking too soon” as well. This should serve notice that we have to continue to get the message out and not just assume that the mass of voters out there see what we see.

and Politico is spinning it today like the Democrats aren’t going to lose the House after all because of this.

“The GOP’s special failure” it’s called.

Give me a break.

Is how I found and joined RedState over five years ago. Thank God and Greyhound he’s GONE!

Critz will show his liberal underbelly, and the bogus platform on which he ran, like his “Boss”.