Philadelphia Inquirer-Conor Lamb is the best choice Dems have to flip a Senate seat. Endorsement

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3. Finally got chance to get in here since I saw this endorsement in the paper yesterday

It's time for a change IMHO. No more milquetoast.

Right now, we need a firebrand fighter and Lamb ain't it. If anything, Malcolm Kenyatta is Philly's firebrand in the PA State House enough to get his exhortations on his city constituents' behalf, actually "heard", and picked up by the media. Plus he actually has the backing of much of Philly's black voters. But he is a complete unknown in the rest of the state and as far as I am concerned, we need his energy right where he is - or he could even go for State Senate at some point.

Edit to also add this - Joe Sestak had similar "military credentials" and had also flipped a House seat here in the east (beating Curt Weldon (R) in the then-7th Congressional District). He later ran against Arlen Specter (who had newly switched his party affiliation to Democrat, and ran as one in the 2010 primary as an incumbent for the seat that he had been in for 30 years), and beat Specter.



And then voila! Teabagger Toomey beat him and took the seat.

So that "military background" formula doesn't work that much anymore. I remember Patrick Murphy who was in the then 8th Congressional District (yet another flipped (R) seat) and one of the earliest supporters of candidate Barack Obama, and he too had military experience, was the very first Iraq War vet to run and win a Congressional seat back in 2006, and eventually lost in that same 2010 teabagger wave.