Wow, less than 100 votes currently separating Lamb and Saccone in #PA18
Allegheny has reported its absentee votes -- Lamb won about 62% of them
Still waiting on absentee results in Westmoreland. Washington County just informed us they're also counting absentees tonight, but it might take a few hours...
With Westmoreland now fully counted, including absentees, Lamb leads by 579 votes district-wide in #PA18
As in Allegheny County, Lamb did better in the absentee vote than in the election day vote
Waiting for Washington County to report its absentee results, but if the current trend holds -- i.e., Lamb does about 5 points better in the absentee vote than on election day -- it won't make much difference to the results there or district-wide.
With Washington absentees finally counted, Lamb’s district-wide lead is now up to 641 votes. Once again, he did 5 points better in absentee vote. Greene, the last county, will report the results of their approximately 200 absentee ballots later today.
Greene just reported its absentees: Lamb lead down to 627 votes #PA18
All that’s left to count are provisional and military/overseas ballots. We’re waiting to hear how many there are, but they’re unlikely to make much of a dent in the current margin in #PA18
Here's a visualization of the bigger drop-off in turnout among GOP than among Democrats in #PA18. Democrats consistently came closer to matching 2016 turnout than Republicans did. (Circles sized proportional to overall turnout in precinct.)
Lamb's vote share wasn't really correlated with precinct-level turnout in #PA18. The question is how many Trump voters, many of whom were registered Democrats, did Lamb win over...
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GOP heads into fall still in position to win back House, but advantage a bit smaller after tumultuous summer — trend points toward narrow gains instead of wave
We estimate 226 GOP seats today — 12-seat gain that is smaller than in July
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GOP winning voters who prioritize economy/inflation, so what's tempering overall advantage?
Abortion is big part of story: still on voters' minds, shoring up Dem support, especially with women
More say midterm vote will be to support abortion rights rather than oppose them
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Another part of story is dropping gas prices and uptick in Biden approval — 45% with RVs, highest since Feb
Ratings also up on handling bread-and-butter issues like economy and inflation
Democrats driving gains: +8 on approval from July and +13 on things going well in U.S.
Looks like nature-of--times election: voters most likely to base vote on way things are in country — bad news for party in power
GOP leading among those who cite inflation and those feeling personal impact of higher prices
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Midterms typically referendum on party in power...
Overall, 47% say they're basing their vote a lot on their feelings about Biden — driven by Republicans, most of whom still don't call him legitimate 2020 winner
Trump is still factor for about as many — driven by Democrats