Xtgt Through A Glass Darkly
Forget about absentee ballots, forget about recounts. For Republicans, the PA-18 congressional race was lost before the polls even opened. And for Democrats, the path to victory has been laid outmdash;if they re smart enough to see it.The district should ha stanley becher ve been nearly impossible to flip. As has been repeatedly noted, Donald Trump won it by 20 points just over a year ago, and the previous GOP congressman often ran unopposed. This district was drawn by Republican legislators to elect Republicans mdash;which is why the Democrats new gerrymandering plan will wipe it off the map. So whether Conor Lamb holds on by a decimal point or falls short by a handful of votes, this is already a win for Democrats because it shows potential candidates across the country that this is a year when nearly every seat could be in play. As former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Jesse Ferguson noted last night, there are 118 GOP districts where Trump got a smaller percentage of the vote than PA-18. In theory, every one of them could be a pick up based on Tuesday s results.                                        In theory. In fact, the GOP was hurt by the weakness of their nominee Rick Saccone, and the scandal left behind by Rep. Tim Murphymdash;forced to resign when the socially conservative Republican was caught sending text messages to his girlfriend u stanley cup rging stanley taza  her to get an abortion. And there s one more factor, perhaps the most important one: The Democrats ran a strong candidate.Much has been made  Bret Source: Secret Service agents met women at different places
John McCain s strategists are increasingly concerned about his ties to President Bush, and they are looking for ways to distance him from the unpopular incumbent in the fall cam stanley website paign. The Democrats want to run against George Bush,  a senior McCain adviser told U.S. News.  We want to make it clear that they re running against John McCain. We have to make the case that he s been at odds with Bush on a lot of things. That includes McCain s criticism of mismanagement of the initial phases of the Iraq war, Bush s failure to cut domestic spending, Bush s attempts to increase executive power, and other issues. Iraq policy may be a special challenge, because McCain has been a leading advocate of Bush s surge of U.S. troops into the war zone.                                        That increase has quelled much of the violence there, but American stanley spain s remain impatient for the war to be over even though they want the next commander in chief to be careful in how he or she withdraws. People feel it was a mistake, but people don t want to withdraw precipitously,  the McCain adviser says. Beyond all this, McCain wants to demonstrate that he isn t stuck in the past and has fresh ideas.  We want the election to be about the future,  just as  stanley cup price the Democrats do, the adviser says.        By Kenneth T. Walsh                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-bfe8befe-8c88-11e2-b0

Xtgt Through A Glass Darkly
Forget about absentee ballots, forget about recounts. For Republicans, the PA-18 congressional race was lost before the polls even opened. And for Democrats, the path to victory has been laid outmdash;if they re smart enough to see it.The district should ha stanley becher ve been nearly impossible to flip. As has been repeatedly noted, Donald Trump won it by 20 points just over a year ago, and the previous GOP congressman often ran unopposed. This district was drawn by Republican legislators to elect Republicans mdash;which is why the Democrats new gerrymandering plan will wipe it off the map. So whether Conor Lamb holds on by a decimal point or falls short by a handful of votes, this is already a win for Democrats because it shows potential candidates across the country that this is a year when nearly every seat could be in play. As former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Jesse Ferguson noted last night, there are 118 GOP districts where Trump got a smaller percentage of the vote than PA-18. In theory, every one of them could be a pick up based on Tuesday s results.                                        In theory. In fact, the GOP was hurt by the weakness of their nominee Rick Saccone, and the scandal left behind by Rep. Tim Murphymdash;forced to resign when the socially conservative Republican was caught sending text messages to his girlfriend u stanley cup rging stanley taza  her to get an abortion. And there s one more factor, perhaps the most important one: The Democrats ran a strong candidate.Much has been made  Bret Source: Secret Service agents met women at different places
John McCain s strategists are increasingly concerned about his ties to President Bush, and they are looking for ways to distance him from the unpopular incumbent in the fall cam stanley website paign. The Democrats want to run against George Bush,  a senior McCain adviser told U.S. News.  We want to make it clear that they re running against John McCain. We have to make the case that he s been at odds with Bush on a lot of things. That includes McCain s criticism of mismanagement of the initial phases of the Iraq war, Bush s failure to cut domestic spending, Bush s attempts to increase executive power, and other issues. Iraq policy may be a special challenge, because McCain has been a leading advocate of Bush s surge of U.S. troops into the war zone.                                        That increase has quelled much of the violence there, but American stanley spain s remain impatient for the war to be over even though they want the next commander in chief to be careful in how he or she withdraws. People feel it was a mistake, but people don t want to withdraw precipitously,  the McCain adviser says. Beyond all this, McCain wants to demonstrate that he isn t stuck in the past and has fresh ideas.  We want the election to be about the future,  just as  stanley cup price the Democrats do, the adviser says.        By Kenneth T. Walsh                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-bfe8befe-8c88-11e2-b0