Wow.  Every vote really does count.

Nothing like one final boot in the ass for Republicans this cycle.

Nothing like one final boot in the ass for Republicans this cycle.

The whole Republican crew immediately bolted hobbled from the building.

that gets a "neato mosquito" rating.

23 votes!

23 votes!

23 votes!

And the whole Pennsylvania legislature changes hands.

The dusty old Philadelphia lawyers at the Federalist Society must be getting mighty drunk. Just think, the courts will be backed up for months while they sit in detox.

The Republicans challenged every ballot on every conceivable nit-picking point so they can't well argue now that those ballots ought to be included in the count. They are skunked and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

I also wonder if now that Dems have the house if a few more moderate Republicans, especially from the SE, will switch parties to partner with a governor who just got reelected with over 60% of the vote including a massive landslide in the SE.

I mean c'mon it takes time to issue arrest warrants.

Once they are smashed they completely fall apart, it's pathetic.

Is this going to yield any benefits in reapportioning?

Probably not.

I posted pretty extensively over about this on DKos, but since there's a strong PA contingent here, I won't bother.

I will just say that this is a victory for the 50 State Strategy and a victory for people power.  On Election Day, the real machine was rolling for Rendell and Casey.  But it was us, the Young Dems, the party faithful, Committeepeople, and just people who were excited about Barb that were out there making the difference.

It's a great time to be a Dem here in Chester County.

...from a former (very disloyal) Delaware County Republican. I followed the lead of my late dad, who was a registered Republican that loathed Nixon, Reagan and Papa Bush, not to mention Curt Weldon. Like my father, I registered Republican for 2 reasons: a) to have some kind of voice in municipal and county elections in the primary since the Dems always lost the general election; b) voting in the presidential primary was irrelevant, since Pennsylvania's primary is so late it rarely if ever has any influence; and c) you can vote for anyone you want in the general election, regardless of party. In my first presidential vote, I was a Republican for McGovern.

Unfortunately, my old state house district (162nd) remained Republican, but I have relatives who live in the 156th, and I suspect they might've been two of the 23 votes that put the Dems over the top.

I'm just a little worried what type of Damage De Wesse is going to do to the party, as speaker. If he pulls anymore of these midnight pay raises or midnight bill passages or does anything else in the dark of the night the way thing were being done for the past couple years we are going to get smashed by the voters.