Obama appears with Onorato and Sestak in Philadelphia!

[Bravo Zulu]

The final weekend get-out-the-vote push for Tuesday's elections began with an appearance by President Barack Obama, who rolled up his sleeves and did his best to fire up the troops who helped deliver him a victory in 2008.

Appearing after gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato and Senate hopeful Joe Sestak in a gymnasium on the campus of Temple University, Mr. Obama rallied about 1,600 supporters who then were encouraged to hit the streets to canvass for voters, hand out fliers and make phone calls. Big turnout in Philadelphia is crucial to the Democrats' chances in statewide races.

"Now, I am not here to give a long speech," said Mr. Obama, who clocked in at just under seven minutes. "Because I want everybody out there, not in here."

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10303/1099484-84.stm#ixzz13suwhrHe

[tishaLA]

1. Philadelphia and its suburbs is going to be key to winning this for Sestak

Give the ward leaders in Philly some walking around money and watch the votes pile up.

[ShadowLiberal]

2. We need to do well enough out in Western PA to, like Pittsburg

South Eastern PA has been where democrats rack up huge wins to carry the state, but we need to do well enough out in the Western half of the state to for us to be able to overcome losing many smaller parts of the state.

The thing that may help Sestak/Onorato the most is the fact that they're from different ends of the state in different media markets, hopefully they can both drive up turnout in their own hometown base regions and help the other in that part of the state in the process.

[Dawson Leery]

3. How popular is Onorato/strong is the Democratic Machine

outside of Allegheny County?