Charlie Dent (R-PA) was just on CNN saying Republicans better get their shit together...

[TreasonousBastard]

or it will be all over in November.

[Iliyah]

1. Vote these motherf***kers out!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. He is one of the ones not running for re-election this year.

We need the PA Congressional delegation to REFLECT the PA voters and the current 13-GOP, 5-DEM is NOT reflective.

It really should be 10-DEM, 8-GOP based on registration. Even if you allow for the crossover votes that many conservative Ds tend to do, then perhaps 10-GOP, 8-DEM or 9-DEM, 9-GOP... but NOT what it is right now.

[Cosmocat]

3. YEP

that is correct ...

Just shows their absolutely delusional power drunk state that they are going into their sanctimonious hysterics over how UNCONSTITUTIONAL it was to redraw the map to be spot on representative of where the state is - not gerrymandered to favor democrats, just put it where it should be to let the electorate gets its actual say in the state's representation.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Yeah, he's retiring, but you can't look at the whole state, or even gerrymandered...

districts. Large population centers, like Philly, may lean Democratic, or Scranton Republican, but no matter how you cut it they may affect state totals but not voting totals.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The problem is

before the 2010 gerrymandering fiasco, districts like the now-insane 7th Congressional were lean-Dem and actually HAD a Democrat - Joe Sestak... who eventually resigned his seat to run against Specter in the (D) primary for U.S. Senator (with Specter then running as a D) and he lost that primary, and eventually Specter lost to Toomey.

The 8th Congressional, which is mostly Bucks County had a D - Patrick Murphy - who had a similar background as Conor - lawyer who served in the military. Re-districting those boundaries killed that seat in 2010.

I.e., they drew the districts around Philly metro in a bizarre shape in order to dilute the blue that is here and we essentially lost at least 3 seats because of that. MOST of the state's population lives here on the eastern side of the state.

[beachbum bob]

4. lol, its repbulican shit that got them where they are and nothing they can do at this point to stop

the coming tidal wave. THIS ELECTION WAS THEIR WATERLOO. Outspent 20-1 and in a deep trump country, Connor Lamb pulls off the upset of the decade in winning the congressional seat...the failure of republicans and their losing message can not be more obvious:

- trumps tariffs did no good in gaining steelworker votes
- republican attacks on Lamb and his stellar record of personal and professional lives did no good
- taxcuts did no good
- pence did no good
- trump did no good
- republican policies did no good, especially covering up for trump

we can see this happen in 70 or 80 more republican districts come November. You anger the democratic voters and their families, republicans will pay the price as we take our country back from the batshit crazies

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Don't get too smug-- remember Obama's midterm election where we lost massively...

and haven't yet been able to get back to where we were. This looks like a mirror-image repeat of that. The American electorate is extraordinarily fickle, and too often ignorant and assholish.

While it might be great to get control of Congress back, it doesn't really solve any structural problems.

[maryellen99]

8. Thoughts and Prayers Republicans nt

[OhioBlue]

9. Impeach trump, impeach pence, keep impeaching