{"id":189126,"date":"2010-05-18T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/18\/dem-primary-results-in-pennsylvania-and-kentucky-returns-in-arkansas\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:10:00","slug":"dem-primary-results-in-pennsylvania-and-kentucky-returns-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/18\/dem-primary-results-in-pennsylvania-and-kentucky-returns-in-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Primary Results in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, Returns in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official, Joe Sestak has defeated Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rather refreshingly, Specter is staying relatively classy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Specter also said he called Sestak to congratulate him and tell him he thinks it’s vital to keep the seat in the Democratic Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t expect him to aggressively stump for Sestak, first, he’s an 80 year-old cancer survivor, and second, he lost in large part because of his unpopularity, but I expect a joint press conference in the next few days.<\/p>\n

And in the Democratic primary for Senate in Kentucky, Conway beats Mongiardo<\/a> in a close one, so the good Dem beats the faux (anti-abortion, etc.) Dem.<\/p>\n

In the special election in PA-12 to replace Murtha, Mark Critz defeated Tim Burns<\/a>, which means that the Dems hold on to the seat, but Critz is the a seriously right wing Dem, rather far to the right of Murtha, who he worked for as a staffer.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, both Congressional campaign committees dumped a lot of money on this, so it’s a good sign that Critz won, and that it was not particularly close.<\/p>\n

It’s still to soon for Arkansas, but right now, it looks like it will be headed to a runoff, because neither Blanche Lincoln nor Bill Halter will get 50% of the vote.<\/p>\n

As it stands right now<\/a> it’s Bill Halter with 42.65%, Blanche Lincoln 43.26%, and DC Morrison with 14.09%, with 53% reporting, which means that Halter or Lincoln would need to get somewhere around 58% of the remaining votes to avoid a runoff, which is not going to happen.<\/p>\n

The only question now is who will finish in 1st<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n

(on edit<\/span>)<\/p>\n

There will therefore be a runoff on June 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official, Joe Sestak has defeated Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania. Rather refreshingly, Specter is staying relatively classy: Specter also said he called Sestak to congratulate him and tell him he thinks it’s vital to keep the seat in the Democratic Party. I don’t expect him to aggressively stump for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}