The GOP won more than 75% of the local races (township supervisors, school board, councils, etc..) that were contested, but you are right we lots the big ones.
Nothing could have saved Jane Ervin. She was toast from the beginning. Same with Heydt. He never had a shot.
Northampton county is a different story. Two of our council members were booted because they went along with the 65% tax hike. When are we going to learn dems can get away with tax hikes, we cannot.
We could have won the Exec race. However, massive division within the party cost Bob Nyce the election. Peg Ferraro (still bitter from her primary defeat) and her cronies teamed up with Ron Angle and did everything possible to cost Bob Nyce the election. In the end it was enough and Stoffa edged out Nyce.
Since Ron Angle and Peg Ferraro act and talk like dems anyway, I wish you would just convince them to join you. Consider sending them voter reg forms so they can switch?
Seriously, you can keep Angle... his tone of populism simply rubs me the wrong way.
As far as your 75% numbers, the only way that's true is if you count the crossfiled candidates. I figure the accurate number is 55% GOP victories but argue that those victories were in far less populated areas with fewer voters per representative than the areas Dems won. I'm not going to do the math b/c I don't care that much, but when Allentown has 4 open city council seats and some of the twps have 3 open supervisor seats, you need to ratio the voters to representatives. If you wanted to tally total GOP votes to total Dem votes, I'd agree with your math, but I don't think that's how you arrived at 75%.
Also, I think the race was Heydt's based on the polling I saw. The Allentown Committee had an amazing GOTV effort that the Allentown GOP could never have imagined.
The Muhlenberg College poll for the mayoral race favored Heydt 38-31% with 29% undecided. The actual results were Pawlowski 59% to Heydt's 38%. The saving grace for Republicans in Lehigh County was the victory of Glenn Eckhart in the 5th Commissioner district, vacated by Democrat Nick Englesson. It was particularly in eastern Salisbury and Lower Milford Townships where Eckhart overachieved and wrapped the election up. As an ironic result, despite Cunningham's smashing victory, the GOP increased its majority of commissioners to 7-2.
