Delaware County, PA -- where the GOP has controlled govt. since the CIVIL WAR.
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Democrats appear to have swept races in Delaware County, PA — where the GOP has controlled govt. since the CIVIL WAR.
Philip Heron
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Delco Dems appear on way to sweep of 3 County Council seats. Would give them 5-0 grip on county government. #delcovote
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One of my sisters lives in Delaware County and I texted a congrats to her this morning!!!
What a pleasure to hear when I woke up this morning! Montgomery County had flipped their County control in 2012 and now the rest of the suburban counties have flipped last night. The Delaware County GOP candidates for County Council had some foul ads that I heard on the radio including one with a voice actor who mimicked Bernie Sanders supposedly interacting with a "constituent" and endorsing the Democrats in that race, where the narrative proceeded to ridicule him and mischaracterize what is the progressive platform.
Now they lost! Fuck em! 
by Julia Terruso, Updated: November 6, 2019- 2:36 AM
The political forces that shaped last year’s midterm elections showed no signs of abating Tuesday, as voters turned on Republicans and establishment Democrats alike in races from Philadelphia and Scranton to the suburbs of Delaware and Chester Counties.
Outside Pennsylvania, voter unrest with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party he has taken over helped deliver victories for Democrats in Kentucky, where they narrowly took the governorship, and in Virginia, where they seized complete control of the state government for the first time in more than a quarter-century.
Locally, Democrats will hold all five seats on the Delaware County Council, a Republican stronghold since the Civil War, and also assumed a majority on the legislative body in Chester County. In Bucks County, Democrats also held a late lead for control of the board of commissioners in a close race.
And in Philadelphia, a third-party insurgent candidate weakened an already marginalized GOP by securing one of the at-large City Council seats reserved for minority parties — a seat Republicans have held for decades. “It’s a new day in Delaware County,” said Elaine Schaefer, one of three Democrats elected Tuesday in Delaware County. Democrats had never held a majority on the county council in its history, let alone every seat.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-2019-election-results-20191106.html
And this should be a wakeup call for congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R) who is in PA-1 and barely got re-elected in 2018. His district IS Bucks County (with a sliver of Montgomery County) and the reddish Bucks is now going purple. Back in 2006, that was a (D) seat with Patrick Murphy, flipped during the 2006 Democratic Party wave, but it was lost in 2010. Time to take that seat back AGAIN!
at least here in Philly, seemed to be directed at encouraging policies that move more to the left. The 2017 D.A. race here with the win of Larry Krasner (who was previously a Civil Rights & criminal defense lawyer), was sortof a canary in the coal mine. He literally ripped apart the D.A.'s office to begin the difficult work of REAL "criminal justice reform". He has been trashed by the usuals - the FOP and GOP - but tough shit.
What the "pundits" and "analysts" need to see as a take-away is that the reddish suburbs are going purple, the purple suburbs are going blue, and the blue cities are going midnight blue! I.e., there is a gradual shift from right/center-right to the center/center-left in the burbs, with the cities actually starting to go full-blown progressive/left.
with people who had had "enough"! And in this case, what seems to have helped get Democrats out were the efforts that were done to bring more Democrats into the idea of voting to have their voices heard with the 2018 election, and more recently, the disgust at the daily assault of GOP meanness - with "angry" GOP politicians ranting and raving about stupid stuff, coupled with those pictures of children being separated from their parents, and a petty President literally reversing every initiative his predecessor put in place while micromanaging the most innocuous things like the weather forecasts. 
I think people eventually get to the point where they want to "just make it stop". And if "voting them (GOP) out" does that, then so be it. I just got done reading an article in the Inquirer that seemed to sum it up for many of the suburban Republicans -
by Michaelle Bond and Vinny Vella, Updated: 26 minutes ago
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Stacy Maillie, a registered Republican in Springfield Township, was among the voters hoping for a change in Delaware County politics. She considers herself a moderate and thinks the Republican party has shifted away from her, saying the party “has become more extreme.” She voted for the Democratic council candidates.
“Living in Delaware County, if you wanted to have a say in local politics in the past, you sort of had to register as a Republican,” she said.
Maillie said she thought the county would benefit from a shift to a more liberal government.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/delaware-county-council-philadelphia-suburbs-democrats-20191106.html
^^^ this is how Montgomery County started shifting, back in the early '90s, with embryonic changes that briefly produced a Democratic congresswoman (Marjorie Margoles-Mezvinsky - yup, the same one whose son is married to Chelsea Clinton), that eventually snowballed into an avalanche some 20 years later, culminating in the take-over of the County's governance.
Very nice to wake up to, thanks.
