Sestak up 56%-44%

[usregimechange]

Very very early, about 100 votes.

[UndertheOcean]

1. 100 votes ? useless

[usregimechange]

2. Yep, but it lets us know votes are starting to come in

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. I find that comforting.

Imagine if they didn't, for some reason.

[thewiseguy]

6. ...

:spray:

[onehandle]

3. It just flipped. Specter 57%. 586 votes. It's over.

Kidding.

[AlinPA]

5. That's the way the Tee-Vee would see it. They would be screaming Specter wins!

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Uh-oh. Let's go home.

We're cooked.

[thewiseguy]

8. Specter is up 66 to 34....Its a freaking landslide!

5000 votes counted. :nopity:

[Barack_America]

10. That seems to be pretty Philly-driven at the moment.

We'll have to see what the overall turnout in Philly was. I know that turnout in Philly has been reported to be low, but it was pretty brisk at my polling station. I voted around 12:00 PM and was #123. I've voted later in primaries past and been voter #50 or so.

[Barack_America]

9. Specter is doing well in Philly, as predicted.

66% to 33% with 8% reporting.

http://www.phillyelectionresults.com/

[usregimechange]

12. Why would he do well there?

[Barack_America]

16. The Democratic machine is officially sided with Specter.

To put it in a nutshell. That means unions getting out the vote for him and the black clergy siding with him. That's huge in Philly. African-Americans are also saying that they know and trust Specter. Philly also has a lot of health care workers and medical researchers who appreciate Specter's support of the NIH. Specter has a history of coming through for Philly, even when he was a Republican. It wasn't uncommon for Philly and its suburbs to support Specter even when he was officially an "R". Specter and Philly are a bizarre phenomenon that has gone on for years.

[msanthrope]

25. Exactly right on the whole post. n/t

[eggman67]

27. Well there's also the fact that...

...he was once DA in Philly and still has his residence here.

[Barack_America]

31. Another excellent point...

...that precedes my time in Philly.

[usregimechange]

29. Thanks, looks like Sestak is doing better in the rest of the state

[Barack_America]

42. The key will be the Philly counties, I think.

And so far Delaware is the only reporting and going heavily for Sestak.

[msanthrope]

19. Bunch of reasons---

Arlen's an old Philly lawyer and well-known, personally.

He's liked, intellectually, by both Dems and Reps.

He's got close ties with labor unions here.

He's always been great to Philly.

We here in Philly look at the rest of the state and despair Sestak (or any progressive) ever winning. I mean, look, we all held our noses and voted for Bob Casey. (anti-choice...)

We're scared of Toomey. Really, really scared...

[greencharlie]

11. Go Sestak, GO!!!!!!!! Let Spector gtfo... nt

[malaise]

14. GEM$NBC is way behind

http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/

[thewiseguy]

13. Specter up 66-34 with 20,000 votes counted

[spinbaby]

15. Why is it taking so long to get counts

We had faster results before we got these new fangled electronic voting machines.

[thewiseguy]

17. Specter up 53-47 with 50,000 votes counted

[MadBadger]

18. State of PA has the race a lot closer than any other site, with more votes counted

[thewiseguy]

20. Not true.

The other site actually has more votes counted. (Over 53000) With Specter up 58-42

[MadBadger]

22. Now they do. At the time of posting, what I said was true

[mucifer]

21. weird the 2 different websites have VERY different results. I don't get it

[MadBadger]

26. According to State of PA, Sestak is down 54 votes with about 90,000 counted

[David Zephyr]

23. Whoever wins, we need to support.

I am no fan of Arlen, but he'll be better than the Republican.

[AlinPA]

32. Maybe. He could switch back after using the Democrats' money and energy.

[David Zephyr]

39. He wouldn't.

They've trashed him too much. But I'm hopeful he won't be the victor tonight. But, if he is, I will support him in November.

[AlinPA]

48. We must support him if he wins - Toomey would be a disaster.

[thewiseguy]

24. 90,000 votes counted and they are tied!

[MadBadger]

28. Philly.com has it at 56,000-46,000 for Specter, and the State of PA has it tied at 45,000

It seems they are getting numbers from different places

[usregimechange]

34. I noticed that as well, can we pick which numbers we want?

[MadBadger]

38. PA State site went down, looks like we can only use one now

[usregimechange]

40. I hope ballots don't start coming up missing

[Parker CA]

30. 55% Specter : 45% Sestak - 11% reporting.

[thewiseguy]

33. Specter is up 54-46 with 119,000 votes counted

[thewiseguy]

35. Specter 50.5 Sestak 49.5 with 147,000 votes counted

[MadBadger]

36. Or is it 53-47 with 146,000 votes counted

[thewiseguy]

37. The other site has Specter up 53-47 with roughly the same amount of votes counted

[MadBadger]

41. 52-48 Specter according to philly.com...keeps getting closer

[thewiseguy]

43. Its 52-48, 7000 votes separates the two, 20 percent of the precints in

[thewiseguy]

44. Sestak now up by 7000 votes but that according to the PA election site

[thewiseguy]

45. Two different websites showing different results

The PA site has been favoring Sestak all night long while other sites have had Specter ahead.

But one thing is for sure, the gap is narrowing.

[MadBadger]

46. 51-49 either way at this point

[mucifer]

47. why are these results spector 61% Sestak 38% at the website:

http://www.phillyelectionresults.com/ I don't get it and it's scaring me.

[Barack_America]

49. Philly was always expected to go big for Specter.

Those number should not surprise you.

[mucifer]

50. oh should have read that better thanks.