Here’s How Every District Would Change Under the Scarnati-Turzai Map
How would the Scarnati-Turzai map change the competitive balance of PA’s congressional districts? We looked at 8 years of district-specific election results to find out.
How would the Scarnati-Turzai map change the competitive balance of PA’s congressional districts? We looked at 8 years of district-specific election results to find out.
The state Supreme Court decision to toss the existing Congressional map and impose the tightened timeline to draw a new map righted one wrong, but created another.
On March 13, a special election will be held in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, with Republican Rick Saccone opposing Democrat Connor Lamb. Libertarian candidate Drew Miller is also on the ballot. It is an especially convoluted special election since the winner will need to also run two months later in the May 15th primary to be nominated by his party – and then again in the November general election when the seat’s regular term expires. But three elections across some eight months might be one of the more unexceptional aspects of this contest.
Should the Republican party worry about the March special election in the heavily Republican advantaged district that is rated as “likely Republican” by most election handicappers? Maybe.
Will Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf win a second term in the rapidly approaching 2018 statewide election? Or will he become another “one term Tom,” losing his bid for a second term, as did his immediate predecessor, Republican Tom Corbett.
With tax reform being pushed at the federal level, is it really a tax cut, or is it a tax shift? And does that mean we should give up on tax reform?
In the aftermath of this month’s off-year election, it appears national Republicans are confronting such a challenge as they prepare for the 2018 midterm elections, now some 11 months away.
Since our last ranking, Rep. Tim Murphy resigned, and Congressman Charlie Dent announced his retirement at the end of the term. We are taking the opportunity to update our rankings of the delegation.
For too long Pennsylvania’s judicial selection process has allowed the search for the perfect to be the enemy of the good. The system we have now is neither perfect nor even “good enough.” It’s just plain bad.
A hoary old adage about the weather is often attributed to Mark Twain: if you don’t like it now wait five minutes and it will change. Something like that has happened to the burgeoning reelection campaign of Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey now running for a third term to the U.S. Senate.
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