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whjoyjr t1_j4i9j7z wrote

A couple of thoughts:

  1. $100k isn’t near enough to do what they stated. Not even close. I’m not even sure that the updated voter information (as in who voted / who didn’t / location demographics) is available yet.

I lived in Valley Forge for 18 months in the early 1990’s, and lived in Hatboro for a year in the late 2000’s.

  1. The fish rots from the head. Very bad candidates affected downstream races. And the behavior of Republican operatives after Fetterman’s stroke were just disgusting.

  2. Abortion was the biggest albatross around the neck of the party, and calls for more restrictive laws drove the stake into the party.

  3. The reputation of the Republicans isn’t helped by antics outside of the state. Guilt by association.

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ChrisTheHurricane t1_j4ikzwf wrote

>And the behavior of Republican operatives after Fetterman’s stroke were just disgusting.

This point is underappreciated. Trying to run a campaign based around bullying a stroke victim in the state that's behind only Florida in average resident age is ill-advised, at best.

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SunstruckMorning t1_j4jm46z wrote

They literally thought trying to appeal ableism would make them look better, it didn’t.

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Patiod t1_j4j2w28 wrote

The abortion thing might play well with evangelicals, but it runs contrary to the "leave me the fuck alone" core approach of the 2A, anti tax, anti regulation old timey Republicans I know

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whjoyjr t1_j4lhk4x wrote

But that is not who they are playing to. They count on those votes as a given. The Party sold their soul to the religious bigots during the era of St. Ronnie.

And before anyone comes at me, I was a Republican back in that day. Only after getting out of the suburban DC bubble did I start to see that things were not as what was being sold by the Republicans.

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