I tried to stay up and watch this whole thing, but then the wine kicked in and I was done.We have the Washington numbers and NBC is calling Conor Lamb the apparent winner in PA-18— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) March 14, 2018
Kornacki did a great job though, so I thought I would use his tweet in my post about this amazing race.
Five Thirty Eight also backs NBC's announcement that Lamb is the winner here:
As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, Lamb leads by 641 votes, or 0.28 percentage points. And he and Democrats have claimed victory.
The exact margin will likely change,1 but it’s going to be very difficult for Saccone to make up that deficit. The only votes left to be counted are around 200 absentee ballots in Greene County (expected to be announced on Wednesday) as well as a handful of provisional and overseas ballots, which may take days to finalize. There may not even be 641 ballots left to count.
Nor is a recount likely to change the final result. Although it would be pretty easy for Republicans to request a recount should they want one, recounts typically don’t shift election margins by that much. That’s especially true in Pennsylvania, where most voting is done on electronic touchscreens; a recount would only reveal errors in the small population of paper ballots.
Of course Saccone is not conceding as of yet, and with it this incredibly close I don't really blame him.
However this whole thing is simply amazing, no Democrat should have even had a chance in this race, and the fact that Lamb won (?) should terrify the Republican party moving forward into 2018.
And this might give them a couple of nightmares as well.
Do you feel that blue wave a coming?Our election night poll in PA-18 found that health care was a defining issue in the race. 52% said it was either the most important issue or very important in their vote, and Conor Lamb won those voters 62-38: https://t.co/1D00GVRY5k— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) March 14, 2018
Because I certainly do.
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