Southeast PA town map

[TeePee4Prez]

Great work, Nordstrand. What is the Kerry-McCain township in MontCo that borders Philly?

Living fairly close to there one explanation I have is a fair number of well off white blue collar workers from the city moved there swinging it towards McCain.  It also explains some of the lower Bucks swings.  I'm surprised Lower Moreland even went for Kerry.  It always seemed fairly Catholic and conservative to me whereas Abington/Jenkintown and Upper Moreland/Willow Grove seemed more liberal.  The state Rep in Lower Moreland is a Santorum-esque conservative named Tom Murt who knocked off a socially liberal Republican Sue Cornell in 2006 over the pay raise debacle. 

[TeePee4Prez]

Great work, Nordstrand. What is the Kerry-McCain township in MontCo that borders Philly?

Living fairly close to there one explanation I have is a fair number of well off white blue collar workers from the city moved there swinging it towards McCain.  It also explains some of the lower Bucks swings.  I'm surprised Lower Moreland even went for Kerry.  It always seemed fairly Catholic and conservative to me whereas Abington/Jenkintown and Upper Moreland/Willow Grove seemed more liberal.  The state Rep in Lower Moreland is a Santorum-esque conservative named Tom Murt who knocked off a socially liberal Republican Sue Cornell in 2006 over the pay raise debacle. 

Agreed with all of the above.

Murt is my man.    As you know, he was my write in vote for Congress in 2008. He's awesome. Even though Lower Moreland (a big part of his district) is more conservative, his district is more of a swing/centrist district. Even though I wanted him in the 2006 primary, I thought he was going to lose the General. Hell, I didn't even think he'd win the primary (he ended up winning easily). He won the General easily, too. He was targeted in 2008 as well. He won by an even bigger margin.

I'd love to see him run for the PA 13 seat one day but I think, for the first time since 2004, that I'm actually going to like a candidate in the 13th in 2010. I like one candidate in particular but that's another discussion for another thread...for another day. 

Let me clarify, though, that Murt is certainly not "Santorum-esque" in his style of engagement. Santorum is polarizing; Murt is not. Santorum is a fierce fighter; Murt is one of the meekest, low key people I've seen in politics.

At least ideologically I heard he was in that territory.  I could be wrong.  It seems to me that the extreme Southeast corner of Montco might be the GOP's best hope.  The rest of the county seemed to swing wildly Democratic.

[TeePee4Prez]

Bensalem being in one of the top 25 lists for obama is surprising.  I expected him to win there, but thats a relatively strongish place there (there is a fairly strong Republican party).

Not anymore. Bensalem is quickly trending to the Dems. In fact, I think they not have the registration advantage. The DiGirolamo crew is worried...

Thats right.  Forgot about that.  Well...I think the DiGirolamo name gives them a fighting chance at least.

The county GOP needs a new plan to win back some of its old haunts (its slipping big time in Middletown, though I live in a more democratic section of it than normal)...it lost newtown again...how long before the Dems get the 2nd county commissioner?  (That scares me).

Compared to Long Island, which is politically similar, it's actually amazing how well the Bucks GOP has held on locally.  Despite the top of the ticket almost always going D, all State Senate seats are GOP and most of the PA House is.