The punditry is already chomping at the bit trying to figure otu what to make of the no vote on the retention of Justice Nigro in Pennsylvania. For those of you not in Pennsylvania, I am sure this sounds like an archaic and weird election and just why should you care that for the first time ever 50%+ of voters threw out a sitting Supreme Court justice in Pennsylvania. It is the sign of the revolution coming…

Over at Red State one of their writers penned an op-ed that is about the talking point the political elites are taking: how dare the voters toss out judges over the payraise, as they didn’t directly vote for it. Mark over at Red State spends most of the article portraying the anti-retention vote as some sort of leftist/populist uprising. Well as someone who was actually on the ground I can say nothing could be more ridiculously from the truth. If you look at the election results it was conservative counties, not liberal ones, that produced huge anti-retention majorities. DemocracyRising is a rather ineffective left wing group that pales in comparison to YCOP, CleanSweep, and other groups who have been invovled in the anti-pay raise fight.

Nigro lost because he was seen as part of the problem in Harrisburg and the voters, I suspect, are just warming up.

Name Kaine Kilgore Potts W Forrester Corzine W
Mark 50 47 3 D 47 53 D
Alex 49 49 2 D 48 52 D
Bob 48 50 2 R 46 54 D
Rosanne 50 48 2 D 45 54 D
Andrew 52 46 2 D 41 59 D
Anon1 48.3 49.1 2.6 R 47.4 52.6 D
Jason 47 50 3 R 49.1 48.1 R
CR Insider 51 47 2 D 45 55 D
Anon2 50 48 2 D 43 56 D
Anon3 51 46 3 D 46 54 D
Rob Lee 48 49 3 R 45 55 D
Sentinel 48 50 2 R 45 55 D
Stephen Puetz 48.9 49.1 2 R 44 56 D
Zach Wallen 48 50 2 R 46 54 D
Jeff Mapson 48.3 48.6 3.1 R 49.6 48.9 R

The actual was

Corzine 53% - Forrester 43%
Kaine 52% - Kilgore 46% - Potts 2%

The following correctly guessed the outcomes of none of the races: Jason and Jeff Mapson
The following correctly guessed the outcomes of one of the races: Bob, Anon1, Rob Lee, Sentinel, Stephen Puetz, and Zach Wallen
The following correctly guessed both races: Mark Harris, Alex, Rosanne, Andrew, CR Insider, Anon2, and Anon3

Net Guess Difference:
Rosanne - 7
Mark - 8
Alex - 12
Andrew - 8
CR Insider - 6
Anon2 - 7
Anon3 - 6

So congrats to CR Insider and Anon3 for winning BUT I said no anonomous can win, so the next closest non-annon person was Rosanne who is the first winner of the $20 gift certificate. Congrats