My first attempt at one of these, from an electoral-reform thought experiment I've been making a few, as-yet unposted, maps for. President Romney is suffering from the six-year itch and an economy which has just smashed into a brick wall.
State of Pennsylvania, 14th November 2018
The Big Two
Democratic Party of Pennsylvania: 8 congressional gains, five state senate pickups and forty-six state house flips. Landslide victories for senator, governor and all state row offices. The Pennsylvania Dems are understandably almost comatose with joy. Now they just have to govern with a legislative majority ranging from the most rabidly canine of Blue Dogs to the new Democratic Socialists Caucus, in the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, soaring unemployment rates and a furious and very motivated base. Godspeed, Tom Wolf, godspeed...
Republican Party of Pennsylvania: I know these are meant to be sentences, but the sound and fury coming from the Republicans since the election could have books written about it. Harrisburg has been filled with the sounds of recrimination as the now-powerless Republicans descend into a circular firing squad. If one faction had been disproportionately hurt, perhaps things would have been better, but those who clung to President Romney lost as much as those who pretended they'd never heard of him. Ryan Aument, who lost the 9th District to Jess King without even the need for a recount, has spent the past week ranting on Twitter, blaming a Communist-homosexual conspiracy - so clearly, he really did think he was running for election in the '50s. Meanwhile, Rep. Doug Mastriano, who survived comfortably, has become the first re-elected Republican to call for the resignation, not only of Romney, but also of Vice-President Ryan, so that a 'true conservative' can ascend to the Presidency. For a self-proclaimed constitutionalist, he has a very poor understanding of the Presidential Line of Succession. None of this touches on the ructions in the internal legislative caucuses. Like I said, books and books.
Internal party groupings
Democratic Socialists of Pennsylvania: They've actually managed to get eleven endorsed state reps and two state senators elected, up from the two state reps who joined in the 2016-18 session, and are setting up a caucus. Watch them squander it all come budget time when they try to introduce an amendment nationalising (statalising?) the cannabis industry to go along with liquor control, or something similarly ridiculous.
Pennsylvania Legislative Blue Dog Coalition: Have managed to scrape back a few seats in Pennsyltucky and then proceeded to piss off literally everyone else in the state party by digging up an anti-gay marriage guy to lead them. I'm not saying they're going to do a New York and form the IDC, I'm just saying that they and the state party might be happier if they did.
Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus: Wielding increasing amounts of power by continuing to basically control the Philadelphia seats whilst building strength in some really unexpected places (Harrisburg, State College and, of all places, Lancaster now have African American state reps), they have already made it clear that they expect the administration to 'stop taking black votes for granted.' What this actually means is unclear, as the chances of the AA-majority or influenced seats not voting Democratic are pretty minimal, but at least they're trying.
Republican Legislative Mainstreet Partnership: I know I said that people from all branches of the Republican party were hit more-or-less equally, but the Mainstreeters have been decimated as the Democrats swept them out of those increasingly blue Philly suburban districts. There are now no congresspeople from Pennsylvania affiliated with them, either. A poor, poor result for the people that used to dominate Pennsylvania state government.
Legislative Freedom Caucus: Seems to be fragmenting into pro-Mastriano (i.e. pro conspiracy theorist) and anti-Mastriano (i.e. comparatively sensible (what, I did say comparatively)) factions. Almost certainly the anti-Mastriano lot will lose and end up forming a new caucus, but it's just more of the remorseless grind of the PA Republicans destroying themselves. I look forward to seeing whether they manage to leverage their proportionally huge power to get one of their own in the Minority Leader slot, or if it goes to some other kind of extreme rightist.
Minor Parties with at least local representation
Green-Equality Party: The merger of the Greens with that weird Equality League from two years ago, they have, ludicrously, managed to narrowly pick up the 1st council district in Philadelphia in a special election after the Democratic machine failed and two of those defeated in the D primary ran as independents. This led to one of the most bizarre press conferences in recent memory, where the victorious (and visibly high) candidate had to be informed by reporters that she was not, in fact, giving a concession speech but had won. I suspect she's in for a fun year before being turfed out, but it will give them something to put on their website, at least.
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: Are circling around the Republican Party like vultures, hoping to pick off a couple of dazed and confused legislators and consume them. To be fair, they might be in with a shot with the few remaining Philly suburban state reps, who are going to be very, very unhappy with whichever far-rightist is elected as Minority Leader by the Pennsyltucky contingent. Didn't win anything on election night, though, apart from a couple of really low-level 'non-partisan' positions which they will nonetheless try to tout as a triumph.
Other Parties
Working Families Party of Pennsylvania: As predicted, a damp squib. Did manage to beat that doomed Republican in Senate District 2, though, so that's something I guess.
Animal Rights Alliance: Their party platform was written entirely in verse, extolling the virtues of veganism, and their spokesperson called the American beef industry 'the Holocowst,' so how well do you think they did?
Pennsylvania Socialist Party: What little campaigning they did seems to have been decrying the DSA endorsed candidates as 'entryists doomed to failure.' Well, there are thirteen DSAers in the legislature now while the Socialist Party managed to get three percent in a Pittsburgh house district, so I guess they have different definitions of failure.
Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Bund: Beloved of wikibox makers and Amish population growth meme creators, they *checks notes* ran a single candidate, who dropped out and endorsed the Republicans, and remain completely ignored by the vast majority of actual Amish people for the simple reason that they mostly don't vote.