Per Chuck Todd, late turnout surge in PA.

Is that what they call it when Fast Eddie Rendell re-sets the voting machines the right way?

Hi Eli

Street cash?

In an urban democratic machine with the governor and president’s prestige on the line? Surely not….

Philly.com says Specter 52 Sestak 48 with 19% reporting. Just keeps getting closer…

Walkin’ around money.

Namaste, Eli

ELI!

I cruised right in too, this evening, no wait.

always a possiblity

Thanks to Rachel Maddow for mentioning the day’s important news amidst all the Smart Fellers’ election masturbation: our five troops lost in Kabul today.

ELI!

oooo, all the hard core leftists are arrivin’. Far out.

Hi everyone! I might be too busy clicking through and updating election results to be around much, but please talk amongst yourselves.

Topic: Blue Dogs are neither blue nor dogs. Discuss.

Andrea Mitchell just seems so sad at having to rearrange her dinner party place settings and invite all these hideous arrivistes. The Dowager Greenspan is sad. Rachel’s face was amazing on the split screen when Mitchell claimed, “Arlen Spectre has really always been a Democrat.”

Yeah, ask Anita Hill about that, you horrible woman.

funny how it took almost an hour for the first returns to come in, huh?

Is there a name for lady blue dogs we can use on this femblog?

they never did follow up on that $375K that LIEberman lost track of during his last day of the election. Funny that.

Why would a Democrat be inclined to vote for Magic Bullet Spectre over Sleestack?

What has Spectre done or promised for his constituents other than to screw them over?

Funny, she didn’t report how many Afghans were killed.

Blue balls won’t work, huh?

now at 51/49 with 28% in. Joe is catching up.

Ladeibermans?

They didn’t give me any of it. Pikers.

Must say that Sestak & Halter, should they win, will quickly become as bad as those they replaced.

that’s a place in Lancaster County—most assuredly R. country,

I reckon it’s the same reason that Democrats all seem to love Joe Lieberman no matter what he does to them: Superhuman sexual magnetism.

Teddy, I love “The Dowager Greenspan”, you just come up with that tonight or have you been using it for awhile?

re: neither blue nor dogs

I know I’d treat a dog a helluva lot better than I’d treat a Blue Dog Dem. How about a flea collar with fleas glued to the inside?

However, there’s a bit of joy in denying the OFA/DSCC machine a win.

probably. But if Arlen skates in and then his health crashes there will be an R. gov. to replace him. Don’t like the idea of that at all.

U.S. Senate – Dem Primary
May 18, 2010 – 09:30PM ET
Kentucky – 3215 of 3575 Precincts Reporting – 90%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Conway , Jack Dem 208,446 45%
Mongiardo , Daniel Dem 199,110 43%
Price , Darlene Dem 25,564 5%
Sweeney , Maurice Dem 16,274 3%
Buckmaster , James Dem 15,824 3%

I have your skepticism, too.
But that would be a heady goal for each, and many years in the making.

Not exactly solace, I know.

Dogs are loyal too. And smell better.

Just like Catholics. While he always prays for our men in uniform, Father Murphy never prays for dead and injured Arabs – children or otherwise. And we know how much priests love children.

31% in and we’re at 50/50

True, but I’m still enjoying the spectacle of incumbents getting kicked to the curb ; )

Slim pickins.

Man, you got that right.

especially these two incumbents. Scrapple and Sen. Walmart.

But they’re A-rabs. & infidels. Don’t deserve consideration as human beans. /s

Beevis and Butthead.

Here’s the thing – if Halter, Sestak and Romanoff win, that means that the mighty much vaunted OFA machine backed the loser 100% of the time in those primaries.

Should wake their (Obama/Rham) asses up.

Yep. And even if their replacements turn out to be just as bad, that’s small consolation to Lincoln and Specter as they have to eke out their meager livings as healthcare or financial lobbyists.

There is some solace to be had in wrecking the incumbency protection racket so beloved by Andrea Greenspan, et al.

You know, that may be true.

But for now, in fact, Spectre himself is better than the Spectre he replaced. And it’s entirely due to Sestak’s challenge. Blanche’s feared derivatives reform is utterly due to Halter’s challenge.

So despite their eventual capture by the forces that control the imperial capital, this exercise has a point.

interesting county by county map.

Indeed a Rethug and a Rethug-wannabe. Buh bye.

New, just for tonight. Help me make it catch on, won’t you?

I’m not getting my hopes up by today’s primaries. Hope is far too easily dashed against the rocks of todays political realities.

Party on…! ;-)

Should wake their (Obama/Rham) asses up.

Not. They’ll just move further to the reich.

And don’t forget MA and Sen. Brown. How embarrassing!

Time for a push to reform that law, then.
It worked out so well in Massachusetts this year, after all.

Should wake their (Obama/Rham) asses up.

“Should” is such a long word….

Fire sale! Haggis! And Scrapple! Hardly used. Cheap.

That is outstanding!

Blanche’s derivatives reform was pure smoke and mirrors. It’s already gone as we speak.

Oh, Kelly….

Nothing will wake them up.
They will go to their end blaming us.

And I made a mistake – those are just the races that I’m most interested in. I’ll have to look at the other SEN primaries and get back.

‘Cause who did OFA back in KY? Mongiardo or Conway?

Doubtful. They’re narcoleptics.

not gonna happen. The R’s own the state senate.

Brilliant! I will repeat it early and often…

The Dowager Greenspan
The Dowager Greenspan
The Dowager Greenspan

Why do I keep picturing the housekeeper from Rebecca when I say that? ; )

O come on now, let this ‘mo glory a moment! I promise to come back to harsh reality almost immediately.

Considering the push Teddy Kennedy and his family gave Obama over the top, it’s more than embarrassing. It’s criminally negligent, and a stain on Obama’s honor as a man.

Not sure but I think they’ve stayed out of that race

But it will be revived if there’s a runoff, mark my words.

Dunno. Isn’t Mongiardo the office-holding establishment Dem?

only one of many. And many more to come.

Specter’s lead down to only a few hundred votes.

All we had to vote on in Arizona is the 1 cent sales tax increase. It was a yes or no vote which most people can figure out.

several counties not reporting yet including mine where Sestak has part of his CD.

During this long break from election returns, I imagine Fast Eddie Rendell in Philadelphia and Bill Clinton in Little Rock, madly flipping voting machine result levers in some back room with cute young volunteers.

You should be a sportscaster!

They both are

Mongiardo is the current Lt Gov and lost a close race to Bunning in ’04 while Conway is the current AG. Since the Lt Gov is no longer a stand alone office but is elected as part of the Gov ticket, they probably decided being neutral across the board was the best route to take in KY.

Jane just tweeted…

Sestak 50.1%, Specter 49.9%

Did you see RevDeb’s link to the pretty pale blue map up at 45, it’s a lovely shade tonight : )

Boxer, courageously, calls for ‘a pause in this area’ after cataloging crimes of BP.

Boxer is bloviating. & looks like shit. She has a terrible colorist, or is doing her own hair dye.

Honour.

For a 10 minute break: The Story of the Snake

Anyone in PA – the local news channels will be at campaign HQ’s, and the pictures they send will tell us if the exits the WH is taking are good or bad for Arlen.

It’s how Dutch Reagan got his start, many folks talked about the time the wire went down and he continued calling the baseball game for 20-30 minutes with no idea what was going on. He could sure spin a yarn.

Was just about to say. Sestak’s up by about 500 now. But still only 36% of the precincts, so anything can happen.

If Bill is there, those interns better make sure the only levers they’re flipping are attached to the voting machines…

What are you saying, exactly?

Oh, well, so much for that swag. Thanks.

Partner says it is really bad corrective coloring, the dye hasn’t lifted out of her darker color, while the grey went to blonde easily.

The rest of the tweet…

… 35.9% of precincts reporting. With majority of Phil in, crossing fingers for “future ex Senator Specter.”

If I followed Jane’s tweets I’d never leave the fuckin’ house. *g*

Awesome.

Suicide blond
Dyed by her own hand

I plan to tune into Parenthood at 10 pm and will be pissed if the election preempts.

No comparison intended, I assure you.

U.S. Senate – Dem Primary
May 18, 2010 – 09:53PM ET
Kentucky – 3438 of 3575 Precincts Reporting – 96%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Conway , Jack Dem 218,003 44%
Mongiardo , Daniel Dem 211,346 43%
Price , Darlene Dem 26,803 5%
Buckmaster , James Dem 19,466 4%
Sweeney , Maurice Dem 17,048 3%

LOL : )

52-48 according to maddow, my dear. trending in the good direction.

Zing!

Wheeee! Hi, y’all – Rachel just put up Sestak – 52%, Spector – 48%!!!

Yeah, I know, only a small percentage, but I’d sure like to see this ratio hold up.

SD, gluing fleas to the flea collar – you funny.

“Dowager Greenspan…” Mixed feelings on that one. As a woman who’s twice resisted taking a husband’s name on principle, that women shouldn’t have to be defined/known by their husband’s name/profession/reputation, etc., I’m not crazy about it.
OTOH, Andrea Mitchell doesn’t seem to be doing too well keeping what law firms call “a Chinese Wall” between her job and her hubby’s views, so, well, like I said, mixed feelings.

Anyway, Go Sestak, Go Halter!

we kinda knew that would happen. Philly reports in early and that’s where Scrapple has his base—if you can call it that. It’s where the machine is in full operation.

Gotta still make the beer runs…! ;-)

52/48 is about where Nate Silver thought it would end up. We’ll see.

Hopefully it’ll just stay there. That’ll make updating the post a lot easier.

I do follow her – but have to skim thru quickly. She must type w/ her thumbs pretty damn fast.

And, of course, she has a much more interesting life to tweet about. *g*

Duncan tweets “this is excellent news for John McCain”

LOL

U.S. Senate – Dem Primary
May 18, 2010 – 09:59PM ET
Kentucky – 3504 of 3575 Precincts Reporting – 98%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Conway , Jack Dem 224,217 44%
Mongiardo , Daniel Dem 216,722 43%
Price , Darlene Dem 27,656 5%
Buckmaster , James Dem 20,056 4%
Sweeney , Maurice Dem 17,398 3%

Howie Klein tweets:

First PA county 100% counted- Elk, and Sestak wins with 60.1%. Very good omen. He had 1,946 votes vs Toomey’s 1,387 in very red area

KO calls Conway in KY.

No, he just said ‘no projection’ but there was a check mark by Conway’s name.

“Get me grafix!!”

All the stuff she does would kill me.

I hope Arlen gets some time off to write his memoirs. Maybe embellish that single bullet theory a bit.

PA – Sestak 52-48 47%

AR – Lincoln 46-41-13 5%

Note: A Mitchell sources (in Specter camp) say Arlen CANNOT overcome trend and win.

KO sez Dowager Greenspan reports two Spectre allies say he ‘cannot overcome Sestak’s lead.’

The Dowager saying Spectre top supporters say he can’t make up Sestak’s lead.

look at the map. Specter is toast.

I would not want to have to attend that Unity Breakfast tomorrow as victor Admiral Senator-to-be. Lots of establishment Democrats unhappy tonight.

AP calls KY-SEN for Conway, per KO.

Looks like the Courier-Journal has also called it for Conway:
U.S. Senate – Dem Primary
May 18, 2010 – 10:02PM ET
Kentucky – 3511 of 3575 Precincts Reporting – 98%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Conway , Jack Dem 224,756 44%
Mongiardo , Daniel Dem 217,768 43%
Price , Darlene Dem 27,719 5%
Buckmaster , James Dem 20,117 4%
Sweeney , Maurice Dem 17,478 3%

Oops, that was meant as a reply to Teddy…

PA – Sestak 53-47 53%

AR – Lincoln 46-41-13 5%

Andrea Mitchell sources (in Specter camp) say Arlen CANNOT overcome trend and win. KO has Mitchell up now.

Sphincter has lost.

Holy moly.

Mrs. Greenspan is almost bawling…! ;-)

So far so good!

Now, Blanche Must Go!

Lots of establishment Democrats unhappy tonight.

[Insert the most evil laugh you've ever heard here]

I would like to see the NSA logs of the Mitch-Arlen call tonight.

Yeah, well, she’s just a youngster, y’know.

Mathews and Mitchell have lost tonight.

This is sweet.

Mrs. Greenspan is almost bawling…!

you say that like it’s a bad thing…

LOL

It’s late, and Tweety is on TV.
This is always interesting…

better than chocolate.

Details no tv here!

Blanche: Is there something wrong with me?

STELLLLLLAAAAAA!!!!!

Who will be our haggis now?

heh go home and get a sympathy jump from Alan?

Add to the Obama/ Biden/ Rendel assault on Joe the fact that the Inquirer has been shilling really HARD for Scrapple. All of the powers that be are losing tonight.

Sweet.

Sestak 52-48 with 61% reporting.
Trend cannot be overcome, according to Specter aids.

Sestak 53-47 63%
Race is called by MSNBC/AP

oh that’s just cruel.

Sweet.

Definitely worth repeating.

Mrs. Greenspan is almost bawling…! ;-)

Just how important is this race I don’t recall Andrea or Tweety losing it when Obama won? That should have been our first indication of trouble. I declare double bonus points!

MSNBC just called it for Sestak…! ;-)

lots of offal out there from which to choose.

Heh – my girlfriend in UT, UTSavage tweets:

UTsavage

RT @owillis @chucktodd yes, but according to u guys, dems arent supposed to be turning out tonight, and yet…

WooooHooooo!!!!!!

AP calls for Sestak!!

(And Keith risks his life interrupting Tweet!)y

For whom? *g*

AP just called it for Sestak. Woohoo!

you noticed, too?

AP calls it for Sestak

Great news! Should have bought pizza!

dems arent supposed to be turning out tonight

And another computer model bites the dust.

lol. well, *I* coulda done without the mental image…..

I always preferred her sister Stella anyway.

ROFL

Turnout is high then the Center Dems are getting sent a message as we take out their candidates! The Village current wisdom is toast could realty be setting in?

So gratifying to see Spectre going down. Too bad Sestack sucks. But Arlen sucks more, in part because Rhambama OFA wants him in. Lesser of two weevils.

TCU – I think Specter is probably a personal friend of Andrea and Alan’s.

She also sounded pretty bitter talking about Obama and Biden not comiing to campaign for Specter – was it her or Tweety who called it a “question of loyalty?” She kept saying he had come thru on health care…..but never mentions his habit of doiing the opposite of what he said he’d do before the Sestak challenge.

!!! With that din-din she served up? :)

Lesser of two weevils.

Me likee.

I hope Anita Hill is having a wonderful party tonight.

SWEEEEEEET

So far, does it look like the real (or closer-to-real) Dems are beating the Repub-lites tonight?
Don’t know anything about Conway in KY, but gather he’s more of a Dem than Mongiardo…is he still eading?

Loyalty? These people wouldn’t know loyalty if it hit ‘em up side the head.

Oh, no, after her slobbering over Arlen this morning, Andrea is due a Greenspanking.

In fairness her back was against the Kowalski.

I think we’re two out of three. Halter’s way behind in AR, but only 11% reporting.

OH Please!

Their friends with him that would explain it. Obama can’t campaign anymore for losers he lost his cred in Ted’s seat he can risk it again.

A win for Sestak. Now if we can keep Lincoln under 50% and force a run off, she’ll be beatable.

I feel taller already. This hurts Obama and Rahm and Reid a lot. Yeah!

Great news, if Blanche falls (I hope) maybe the Dem base is really getting excited and can send a loud message to Corporate Obama that he’d better get his Progressive Ass back where it belongs to the left of Center and not the other way. A question I keep asking is who could beat Obama as I’d certainly vote for someone else?

for the plameologists:

mary beth buchanan losing her race in PA-4

tim griffin winning his in AR-2

wtf is a boozman?

OMG, talk about a 1-2 punch to the mind’s eye!

Now yer really gonna upset jayt. *g*

Specter conceding…!

Revenge is a dish best served cold?

A Sestak win sends a pretty f*cking clear message to the establishment Democrats but will they learn the right lesson? Yeah, don’t hold your breath on that one.

Wow, can’t believe Arlen is conceding already.

No, they’ll spin it as just specific to Arlen because of his flip.

One.

“Hail to the Chief.”

–The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

No. the only victory here is beating the incumbency protection racket. Sestack is an asshole. Halter is a halter top.

Lincoln and Spectre never met a corporation they didn’t prefer over the people. Their replacements are not very promising, but they are replacements. The OFA – Obama’s machine for corporate control is failing. There is some glory in that.

The Dems let Brown have that one. Kennedy had to be rolling over in his grave. Dems gave his seat away

It’s already 3 hours too late for that …

Wonder if Alan still uses the paddle he got from Ayn Rand?

Now all of those IDIOT Democrats who said only Arlen can beat Toomey are going to have to pry their feet out of their mouths.

Yep… A couple more to go…! ;-)

good news Time to retire Arlen

Specter clearly lost the Democratic primary because he didn’t do enough to appeal to moderate and conservative Democrats.

The world turned upside down.

the solid gold one?

I can’t believe it was Bob Shrum of all people who appeared earlier and spoke up for both Sestak and Halter. Bob Shrum! Who’d a thunk it?

Clearly. /s

Conway has been called the winner with approximately 5.5k vote lead and 99% of precincts reporting (3548 of 3575)

Rahnobama will move further to the right. Political geniuses and all.

The nice thing about Sestak is that he doesn’t owe anyone because the establishment didn’t help him.

How long has he been a Dem? Glad he did not get away with the sham

Specter: lol! Don’t let the door hit ya in the butt! For once my recently departed mom & I would see eye to eye in our happiness to see Arlen LOSE!!!!

Jane Hamsher is upstairs!
VIDEO: Ed Rendell 2009, Sestak Would Get “Killed” In Democratic Prima

me…Shrum is a lib

The Dowager uses the paddle.

he was so polite about it

He’s using Rove’s math no doubt

Yeah. And I’m Amelia Earhardt.

Spector ran as a Republic & counted on Pa voters to be too dumb to notice. LOSER!!

With matching flask.

To be certain.

Nah, just gold plated. Solid it might bend with each whack.

Lockheed just called. They want their Electra back.

Citizen Leen:

“Shrum is a lib.”

Yeah and I’m fuckin’ Einstein…Jesus where in the hell have you been for the last 20 years, on the dark side a the moon??!! I met Bob Shrum my second year of grad school when he was debate coach a fuckin’ Harvard and he was a sleezy greaseball then and he’s a rich sleasy greaseball now…and he is no fuckin’ liberal. My God!

More cowbell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWCOJPwdXw

Shrum is the jolly, amicable version of Lanny Davis.

looks like blanche is blanching a bit

Jon Walker is upstairs!
Real Democrats Jack Conway and Joe Sestak Win Senate Primaries

Halter 41%
48,336
Lincoln 44%
51,979

27% reporting

Rendell tried to cram a piece of shit down the People’s throats and they covered their mouths.

Spector may have cast a few good votes, but He’s been a slimeball for most of His years.

If one looks back on His votes, one finds He was with the Republicans on most of what has caused all the problems with this Country.

I probably won’t be able to sleep tonight I’m so happy they put his butt where it needed to be, OUT.

Thank You…

Long been paid off Democrats, in fact like most Clintonistas they are Neo-Liberals, see “Welfare Reform”, War in Kosovo and re-installment of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, among other things.

Now to be fair I didn’t know much of this until many years later, but we are at a time in our history where people need to be informed about all the players on not only our side but both sides.

This is the purity test long overdue on our side of the aisle.

LOL!