NEPA is old school system of favors and kickbacks. Run by Northeast Leadership Fund PAC. They even have a Rain Tax. Trump was the wrecking ball that changed the base in Luzerne forever. A flip of 25 points from Romney to Trump with Blue Collar Democrats. Trump almost won Lackawanna in 2016 (Scranton - the last bastion of working class machine Irish Dems. It’s all pensions up here. Machine politics)
I was so damn confused this round as to why there would be so much support of the Dems, even with all the fraud causing the numbers to become skewed. After Biden and the Dems once again fucked over the blue collar unions by immediately turning his back on them after promising to support American energy and manufacturing during his "campaign" (use that term loosely), I assumed the Dems would be hard-pressed to get any votes from the PA citizenry even though it's been a (D) stronghold for quite a number of years.
Scranton is Biden’s hometown. Honestly Republican candidates perform better with Trump on the ballot because it draws out your low propensity voters. The people that just want to be left alone. Certainly fraud up here too besides Luzerne. The Congressional seat went to the democrat incumbent by 2 points. A better candidate like Teddy Daniels would have won but he switched to LG in the primary and then had the craziest of coordinated attacks. Heads will roll though with that swampy move.
Ah, that is a good call, and I didn't even know about Teddy Daniels' electoral trajectory.
Heads will roll though with that swampy move
I hope you're right, Fren. I hope this whole scheme is exposed soon. Sometimes I feel it's so beyond broken that there's no amount of "chemo" that will fix the cancer.
NEPA is old school system of favors and kickbacks. Run by Northeast Leadership Fund PAC. They even have a Rain Tax. Trump was the wrecking ball that changed the base in Luzerne forever. A flip of 25 points from Romney to Trump with Blue Collar Democrats. Trump almost won Lackawanna in 2016 (Scranton - the last bastion of working class machine Irish Dems. It’s all pensions up here. Machine politics)
I was so damn confused this round as to why there would be so much support of the Dems, even with all the fraud causing the numbers to become skewed. After Biden and the Dems once again fucked over the blue collar unions by immediately turning his back on them after promising to support American energy and manufacturing during his "campaign" (use that term loosely), I assumed the Dems would be hard-pressed to get any votes from the PA citizenry even though it's been a (D) stronghold for quite a number of years.
Scranton is Biden’s hometown. Honestly Republican candidates perform better with Trump on the ballot because it draws out your low propensity voters. The people that just want to be left alone. Certainly fraud up here too besides Luzerne. The Congressional seat went to the democrat incumbent by 2 points. A better candidate like Teddy Daniels would have won but he switched to LG in the primary and then had the craziest of coordinated attacks. Heads will roll though with that swampy move.
Ah, that is a good call, and I didn't even know about Teddy Daniels' electoral trajectory.
I hope you're right, Fren. I hope this whole scheme is exposed soon. Sometimes I feel it's so beyond broken that there's no amount of "chemo" that will fix the cancer.