I used my Monday print column to talk about last week's election.
There was good news and bad news for Delco Dems.
All the good news was coming out of the city of Chester, where Dems rolled to a sweep of the mayor's office, two seats on City Council and a couple more seats on the Chester Upland School Board.
But Dems remain impotent in county-wide races. The incumbent Republican trio of John McBlain, Colleen Morrone and Michael Culp rolled to easy re-election to County Council.
Democrats in the county consistently deliver winners when it comes to state and national races. They now hold a voter registration edge over Republicans, but they have yet to put a dent in the GOP's ironclad grip on power in the Media Courthouse.
The next big political battlefield in the county will come in two races for the Legislature.
The election of state Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland, D-159, to the mayor's post in Chester, as well as state Sen. Dominic Pileggi, R-9, winning a seat on the county Court of Common Pleas, will create two huge vacancies.
Look for Republicans to make a huge push for that Kirkland seat, one that has been safely in Democrats hands now for more than two decades.
Will Democrats be able to use their voter registration edge to their advantage, or will they fall to the better organized GOP?
We're about to find out.
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