And, best of all, in Pennsylvania...

The political forces that shaped last year’s midterm elections showed no signs of abating Tuesday, as voters turned on Republicans and establishment Democrats alike in races from Philadelphia and Scranton to the suburbs of Delaware and Chester Counties.

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Locally, Democrats will hold all five seats on the Delaware County Council, a Republican stronghold since the Civil War, and also assumed a majority on the legislative body in Chester County. In Bucks County, Democrats also held a late lead for control of the board of commissioners in a close race.

And in Philadelphia, a third-party insurgent candidate weakened an already marginalized GOP by securing one of the at-large City Council seats reserved for minority parties — a seat Republicans have held for decades.

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In Philadelphia, Kendra Brooks became the first candidate from outside the two major parties to win a City Council seat in the 100 years since it adopted a modern legislative structure. Running as a Working Families Party candidate, Brooks won one of the at-large Council seats that the city charter effectively reserves for candidates from outside the majority party. For the past 70 years, those two seats have been filled by Republicans.

“We broke the GOP," Brooks said at a victory party in North Philadelphia. "We beat the Democratic establishment. ... They said a black single mom from North Philly wasn’t the right person but we have shown them that we are bigger than them.”

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In Scranton, Independent Paige Cognetti, who declined to seek the Democratic nomination in a special mayoral contest because she said she didn’t trust the party, was elected mayor. Cognetti will be the city’s first female mayor — and the first mayor-elect to give birth (her first child is due in December). She ran on a “Paige against the Machine” slogan — a riff on the band Rage Against the Machine.

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The Democratic victories around the country point to surging interest by liberal voters heading into the 2020 presidential election. That could be especially significant in Pennsylvania, which Trump won in 2016 — along with its 20 electoral college votes — partly due to a dip in Democratic enthusiasm in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

  Philadelphia Inquirer

Sounds like Pennsylvania is going beyond both Republican and Democrats, straight to progressives. Hooray for Pennsylvania.

Some Philadelphia voters said Tuesday they wanted a shift further left, amidst a Democratic presidential primary in which the two top candidates, Warren and Bernie Sanders, are progressive icons — never mind recent polling that suggests such a shift left could open a narrow path for Trump to win reelection.

A word to the wise.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.