IF DEMOCRATS could repeat Conor Lamb’s extraordinary result in Pennsylvania when the mid-terms roll round, they would win enough seats in Congress to override a presidential veto. The former marine and federal prosecutor won a district that President Donald Trump took by almost 20 percentage points, the electoral equivalent of defying gravity. Democrats can now look forward to special elections in Arizona’s 8th district (which Mr Trump won by 21 points) and Ohio’s 12th district (which Mr Trump won by 11 points) with relish. Yet one thing that helped tip the vote in Mr Lamb’s favour, albeit by a fraction of a percent, will be hard to repeat.
Rick Saccone was not as bad a candidate as Roy Moore, an alleged sex offender whose failed Senate run in Alabama dealt the Republican party its last electoral humiliation on this scale, but he was dire nonetheless. Republicans almost picked a better candidate, too. After Tim Murphy, a vocal opponent of abortion, was...Continue reading
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