Looks like Arlen Specter’s party switch to keep his job didn’t work after all….
The AP called Pennsylvania’s Senate primary for Sestak just before 10:15 p.m., as Sestak led Specter, 53 percent to 47 percent, with 65 percent of precincts reporting. The second-term congressman and former admiral will face off against former GOP Rep. Pat Toomey in the general election.
In related news, Democrat Mark Critz, a longtime aide to recently deceased Congressman Jack Murtha, edged Republican candidate Tim Burns in a special election Tuesday to take his boss’s old seat in Pennsylvania’s twelfth Congressional district. Republicans had been focusing on that seat as a possible pickup – as well as possible bellweather for the midterm elections this fall – so the fact that Democrats held onto the seat could mean things won’t be quite as bleak for Democrats in November.
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