and the suburbs are in a weird flux

it pains me to say it, but it all boils down to trade unions

the suburbs were kept red by trade union membership who would vote red, it wasnt until politicians getting backed by the koch's and mercers started pushing right to work that those suburbs flipped to become blue dog subburbs

now the PAGOP is dead broke, no new donors, bad registration and turnout numbers, horrid leadership and fracturing, and moving into this year they only had 6 employees compared to last election they had hundreds

those 6 employees were all new hires

the burden is entirely on the candidates and the county gop

and they lack the resouces to win

weve been crushed in the special election, the judicial elections, and turnout for the primaries

the numbers are worse than when trump won across the board

the party disaffected all of the blue dog moderates who voted for trump based on the right to work line of reasoning

dually the party has dissaffected the hard right and the "santorum" pro life base as well

wagner propped uyp the whole gop for the last few year with his money

he did so with an iron fist

and now there is more hatred for him from the right than there is from the left

this hatred is spreading to the rest of the party

we lost the moderates and the far right/religous right

even if the pagop was intact wed still be out registered by 10%

we needed a coalition of the moderate ight, center right, and far right to win, in order to do that we needed the union membership

and the santorum voters

now we have neither

thisis why the statewide races will likely be lost

BUT
we can still win the congressional and state level representative and senate races

as their districts are much more maliable than the state as a whole

Sounds like we have opportunities, then. Who's left supporting the PAGOP, ultimately?

just wagner and he is out of money

he said himself 2 weeks ago he needed 50 million to beat wolf

that means he needs to raise 300k/day

he cant even raise more than 10k at his best fundraisers

his top fundraisers have left

he is out of money

And Wolf has $50M himself

yes

the guy running the pagop did this with the help of wagz

they ran out the gop money when the current gop head won his election

our oppourtuity lies in supporting congressional races like rothfus v lamb, marty nothstein, etc

then state level races

once wolf is done in 4 years they will run the most liberal gov. candidate in american history

he will run against mango

mango will crush him, especially with trump support

mango's grassroots is still bigger and more active than wagners

its a shit situation, but 4 more years of wolf might actually help the PAGOP re energizer