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Happy Primary Day in Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Key Races
Pennsylvania - Democratic primary for governor (Wolf heavily favored); Democratic Primary for lieutenant governor (no idea); Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District - part of Northeast Philly and parts of Montgomery and Bucks - Marjorie Margolis is Chelsea Clinton's mother in law...there's been no public polling on the race, and whoever gets the Dem nod will win the general in November.

Kentucky - Republican primary for US Senate (McConnell favored over tea party guy Bevin) - likely to be the biggest story of the night nationally even though there are tons of more interesting races

Georgia - Republican primary for US Senate (Perdue, establishment-y conservative, likely to make runoff to face either Kingston, establishment-y conservative, or Karen Handel, less establishment-y conservative. Crazy persons Gingrey and Broun doing surprisingly poorly. Tons of competitive House primaries as well as Kingston, Gingrey and Broun are all vacating their House seats to run for Senate.

Idaho - Our friends from the GOP gubernatorial debate from last week are facing off today. Governor Butch Otter is facing a stern challenge from a tea party state senator because he likes Common Core too much or something, but I'm more interested in how the biker and the curmudgeon do.

Oregon - National GOP favorite Dr. Monica Wehby has had a bad week or two, getting accused of hitting an ex in the face with a notepad or something, and she's facing the more conservative State Rep. Jason Conger for the right to take on freshman Sen. Jeff Merkley. Merkley will be favored regardless, but there has been polling showing he is vulnerable.

Arkansas - I don't care about anything, but TV might

Pennsylvania wants Daylin Leach to beat Margolis.

I thought that was in reference to Daylin Leach maybe being the Philadelphia metro area's answer to Kristi Noem



NOPE

jerseyhoya wrote:Happy Primary Day in Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Key Races


Arkansas - I don't care about anything, but TV might

All the action is on the Republican side. There's not much all that interesting unless Tommy Moll in the 4th somehow pulls out a stunning upset with his out of state money, but the only public poll had him down like 30 points. One of my students has been working for the likely winner, Bruce Westerman. Similarly, the second looks like a done deal for for French Hill. Conrad Reynolds and my friend Ann Clemmer (who used to be a solid AR Rockefeller Republican until she drank from the Sarah Palin koolaid cup) are the other candidates and they don't have much of a shot according to that same poll. Curiously, in both these districts, Democrats are running quality challengers, so they could be competitive in November. Finally, Asa Hutchinson should pretty easily win the primary for the Gubernatorial election against Tea Party Curtis Coleman. So, in short, should be a big night for establishment Republicans here in Arkansas.

McConnell up 25% with 30% in.

CNN projecting he'll win.

Wolf is crushing early

NBC10 says Wolf won

berks numbers for PA gov

Candidate Party Votes
TOM CORBETT REPUBLICAN 1551
ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ DEMOCRATIC 499
KATIE MCGINTY DEMOCRATIC 208
ROBERT M. MCCORD DEMOCRATIC 532
TOM WOLF DEMOCRATIC 2624
Write In 8
47 out of 199 reporting

oof

statewide:

CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES
Governor  
Tom Corbett Republican 45,155
Tom Wolf Democratic 78,213
Robert M McCord Democratic 22,080
Katie McGinty Democratic 10,756
Allyson Y. Schwartz Democratic 26,003

I voted for McGinty. I liked her no bad mouthing the others style.

6 of 9 general assembly districts in Berks County have races where the incumbent is running unopposed by the other party. 4 are republican, 2 are democratic

Brendan Boyle is way ahead in PA-13. I'd guess the Philly portion of the district is reporting early, but it'd take a lot for him to blow this edge.

His platform, as far as I could tell, was "I'm not a millionaire".

Race is called. He will fill the role that has been vacant since Patrick Murphy lost in 2010 - member of Congress who would not be out of place at a BSG tailgate.

guy a few doors up was running for the new 5th district. would have liked to see him win but the old sheriff got the nod. think rudderow would've done a good job.

I know pacino posted it in the random thoughts thread, but surprised there wasn't a bit more in here on the gay marriage ruling.

Our old friend Harpua is working these days with the organization that brought the case, and he reported scenes were revelrous in their office today. Pretty cool stuff.

me and Harpua are in a documentary together. proud to have shared the screen with him.

City Hall was a scene. stumbled across a tweeted text convo between two local ladies having a conversation about getting married and that lit a fire pretty deep. good day to be a Pennsylvanian.

my gay neighbors are now going to get married. can't wait for the reception at their house.

Republicans hate brown people....

And in a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available.

Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are not in session. The White House asked for an additional $30 million to continue the effort, but the House bill provides $27 million for what’s described as an entirely new pilot program focused on rural areas only.

Democrats were surprised to see urban children were excluded. And the GOP had some trouble explaining the history itself. But a spokeswoman confirmed that the intent of the bill is a pilot project in “rural areas” only.

So they cut the brown people... um, I mean, the urban people, out of the program. I wonder why that would be the case. Hmmmm.

wish Harpua still posted so i could call him 'pua