Sort of taken aback at some of yesterday’s election results. The West Lampeter referendum, can’t say I was too surprised - the margin of victory was less than 400 votes out of more than 4,200 cast. You could really characterize it as small town Lancaster County versus a growing Lancaster County - with the latter […]

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Hilarious:
Millersville University officials did not ask an anti-terrorism task force to help provide security for next month’s controversial appearance by Bill Ayers, university spokeswoman Janet Kacskos said Thursday.
Randy Gockley, a member of the executive board of the South Central Task Force, confirmed Kacskos’ statement.
Gockley said Greg Noll, the task force’s program manager. proposed to university […]

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Philadelphia Inquirer notices how Obama made major inroads in Lancaster County:
Among 67 counties in Pennsylvania, Lancaster was the place where, percentage-wise, the Democrats made their biggest top-of-the-ticket gains compared with 2004.
Analysts said that was partly due to population changes in the fast-growing Pennsylvania Dutch region, partly due to voter alienation from President Bush (even […]

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Veddy, veddy interesting articles in today’s Era about the election here in Lancaster County. Out front, Tom Murse’s piece confirmed something we speculated about yesterday - that Obama, while not winning Lancaster County, was going to do very well in the suburbs:
Obama came closer to winning Lancaster County than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson beat […]

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A reader chimes in with some questions about how it is Lancaster County Dems went for Obama Tuesday night:
1. Are Democrats here more pacifist than Democrats in the rest of the state, and are Obama’s higher numbers partly attributable to a search for the closest thing to an anti-war candidate that this race has to […]

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So with all the votes counted, Obama garnered more votes than Hillary here in Lancaster County, 27,126 to 22,710 - 54 percent to 46 percent.
That just amazes me.
Lancaster County Democratic registrations soared this year, with more than 12,000 new voters registered since last November. The local party was hoping for 10,000 by this November; they’re way […]

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Don’t see anyone else reporting this here on LOL, so let me do the honors:
With 32 percent of districts reporting, Smucker is crushing the competition, with 2627 to Paul Thibault’s 1292; Steve McDonald with 1071. All subject to change - but I’m not sure anyone expected Smucker by this much, if it holds.
Update: Now with […]

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