No Democratic-Republican Contest in November in Majority of Pennsylvania State House Districts
February 16th, 2008Filing has closed for the Pennsylvania primaries for all federal and state office this year. Pennsylvania has 203 State House districts. Of those 203 districts, in 103 of them, either no Republican filed to be on the Republican primary, or no Democrat filed in the Democratic primary.
At the April 2008 primaries, primary voters are free to nominate candidates by write-in vote. But no one can be nominated unless he or she receives at least 200 write-in votes. This is difficult, so it is likely that there will be very few, if any, major party nominations filled by write-ins at the primaries.
In 2008, there are 56 districts in which no Republican filed, and 47 districts in which no Democrat filed. By contrast, in 2006, there were 44 State House districts with no Republican on the November ballot, and 29 with no Democrat.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Nader Gravel & Paul Kucinich
Awake from your slumber
4 Wise Men march with the people
Washington DC
Whistleblowers
Honesty compassion intelligence guts
Not carrots sticks coercive diplomacy
Divided we fall
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Ron Paul
Ralph Nader
No bribery blackmail extortion
Rage against the machine
Democracy rising democracy now
Suffer not
February 19th, 2008 at 8:00 am
This looks like some a situation where some third parties should be able to offer a choice for the voters.
February 19th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Hopefully someday Pennsylvania will expand into a two party system.
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