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[Deminpenn]

It has been a remarkably quiet election season here. Of course there've been attack ads on local TV for the open state supreme court seat, the Allegheny county executive and Allegheny county DA, but those haven't even swamped the airwaves. There weren't many mailers arriving in my mail box either.

I was voter number 20 at my precinct around 7:30 this morning. Here in western PA, the focus seems to be very local as the candidates for the marquee race, the open seat on the state supreme court, are both from eastern PA (Phila and MontCo).

There are county wide elections for county commissioners and county row offices. But the biggest draw is probably the local school boards. In my school district, the reform candidate already won both the D and R primary and thus is unopposed. I stopped and talked to the school board candidate before voting to let him know he had my vote. We talked a bit about the book banning effort led by an incumbent member who's up for re-election but is in the adjoining region. We agreed that common sense and practicality should prevail, not one person trying to foist their personal agenda on everyone else. That just seemed to be the overall vibe from the folks outside soliciting for their candidates - out with the crazy.

I'd expect normality (this is a conservative county even though Ds might have a registration edge) to prevail and the county wide incumbents to win re-election and the R judicial candidates will probably be the top vote getters for the courts.