Posted on 04/24/2012 7:42:19 PM PDT by P.O.E.
President of the United States
Republican Primary
Candidate Votes Percent
GINGRICH, NEWT (REP) 62,556 10.6%
ROMNEY, MITT (REP) 339,097 57.3%
PAUL, RON (REP) 77,897 13.2%
SANTORUM, RICK (REP) 112,061 18.9%
Democratic Primary
Candidate Votes Percent OBAMA, BARACK (DEM) 484,958 100.0%
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United States Senator
Republican Primary
Candidate Votes Percent
CHRISTIAN, DAVID ALAN (REP) 54,691 9.8%
SCARINGI, MARC A. (REP) 40,834 7.4%
WELCH, STEVEN D. (REP) 114,296 20.6%
SMITH, TOM (REP) 231,013 41.6%
ROHRER, SAM (REP) 115,072 20.7%
Democratic Primary
Candidate Votes Percent
VODVARKA, JOSEPH JOHN (DEM) 108,888 20.2%
CASEY, JR, BOB (DEM) 429,419 79.8%
(Excerpt) Read more at electionreturns.state.pa.us ...
Fun to see Welch lose and making Corbett look incompetent and weak for backing the worst GOP Senate candidate anywhere. This weird decision by Tom will cost him his reelection.
Fun to see that bald headed loser Tim Holden get thrown out.
Fun to see that lying, cheating POS Patrick Murphy get his @$$ handed to him. He was trying to rehabilitate his career. Luckily, it failed.
I can’t believe Rick came in second and he wasn’t even in it. I really thought Paul was going to be second. There are some die hard Paul people in PA.
Commissioner Chris Reilly had his hindmost parts handed to him for the second time in a congressional race (first time was in 2000 when he came in dead last).
He is a self described "conservative" but was part of a county government cabal that balanced the county general fund budget through overcharging the INS about 3:1 for housing immigration detainees at the county do-right.
He and his colleagues bragged so much about their little graft at Uncle Sam's expense that the federal auditors did what they were supposed to do and demanded repayment of much of the overcharges. Result: A substantial property tax increase.
CINO!
Glad to see him given the smackdown again.
Right now, Romney has about half the traditional Repub voters behind him. Thats what all the primaries show. Those are hard numbers, not polls.
That equates to 1/4 of the electorate when you consider Obama has half in a 50/50 Dem/GOP split. Even if Romney does get a hard 48% of the vote (unlikely but possible) half of those people simply voted to get rid of Obama, not that they truly want or like Romney/his ideas.
Ultimately, if he wins, he will have no dem support and half of his own voters only did so out of fear/disgust.
That is not a great platform on which to build anything but a disaster.
What we need is for conservatives - of all parties and none at all - to finally start figuring out that while we do have a two-party system, nothing says that it has to be the present two parties.
Once conservatives can start wrapping their heads around that truth, rather than just resigning themselves to the GOP-E candidate who is being scammed into the GOP nomination, we might actually see things happen.
I voted tonight about 5 pm. I was number 46 for the day. No one is enthusiastic.
Yup. that’s what I’m getting at. Even if he wins, he has no ‘real’ support. Dems don’t want him and half his own (supposedly) camp doesn’t want him.
The GOP hurt themselves beyond repair this time. When all the fear/drama passes, they will find themselves marooned on the bare desert island. The rest of us are clearcutting the place, building boats and sailing off into their sunset.
Manned a poll for my assemblyman for a couple hours in early afternoon....15 voters during the whole windy two hours. Barely a hundred all day for that district.
True. The biggest lie is that the GOP is eternal. Nor are the Dems. When you consider a 1950s dem is today’s rabid right wing Repub, and that 1 1950s Communist is the modern Democrat, it seems self evident.
I talked with the poll workers for awhile and they said that the primary was not well advertised and those that did vote were unenthusiastic. Even fatalistic. If Romney is the nominee America will die.
I would say that America HAS died already and as a result, Romney will be the nominee.
I won’t give up until Romney has 1144.
Øbama vs. Øbama-lite
Why choose the phony when you can have the raw deal?
I'm writing in Santorum, come what may.
He woulda won Pa. if he stayed in. The media/Romney team’s prediction of a loss for Rick was all hype.
Exactly. I don’t know if my state allows write-ins. We have new electronic machines and everyone hates them. We were told that “supplementary” ballots are seldom counted.
Every ballot category has a "write in" button on the touch screen. If you touch that a Q-W-E-R-T-Y keyboard apppears and you type the name. Voila!
I've used that feature in almost every election since we got them--I'm one of those mavericks, you know.
In all honesty DJ, I want to think that a miracle will happen and he will explode before the election. That the MSM will unload on him and drive him out, then someone will stand up and pull this off. I really hope that happens.
But I also think about that article that said Obama isn’t America’s problem, the problem is people would elect him. Same logic for Romney. When half of the traditional votership of the GOP is willing to elect a Romney, then the country I grew up in is no more.
I don’t like thinking that, but I logically do not see how that is not the case. There are so few of us left willing to stand on principle, that barring divine intervention, we are the last of a species. And the ideas that ‘were’ America will go down with us. I feel sorry for the ‘winners’.
Tom Smith has the money to run campaign ads statewide and potentially be competitive against Bob Casey, Jr., which is more than you can say about the others. He was probably our best bet in a weak field.
I don’t have much of an opinion on the redrawn PA-04; maybe Reilly was more conservative than Perry, but from what I’ve read about Perry he seems solid enough, and will definitely be a more consistently conservative vote than Todd Platts.
As for the Altmire-Critz showdown in the redrawn PA-12—wow! I didn’t think Critz would stand a chance; this primary seemed to me like the Buyer-Kern primary in IN in 2002, in which the freshman Kern got trounced by Buyer, but I guess that Altmire was too “moderate” for Big Labor. Critz’s victory gives the GOP nominee, Keith Rothfus (who came very close to beating Altmire in 2010), an excellent chance of winning the general in this GOP leaning CD, since Critz is unknown in the more populous Allegheny and Lawrence areas and what sells in Johnstown won’t work in the central and western parts of the district.
In the PA-17, I would not have believed the result had I not read a column this morning predicting Holden’s defeat. Serves Holden right for staying a Democrat as the party kept going further left; had he switched to the GOP back in 2004 or so, he would still be in Congress (and Republicans could have packed even more Democrats into the PA-17 by taking out Schuylkill County and putting in Dem parts of Allentown and Bethlehem).
I take it that Tim Murphy won handily over his young conservative challenger (Feinberg?) in PA-18. I don’t think that Murphy is that bad, but that wasn’t exactly a victory for conservatism.
In summary, the GOP now has a good chance of ending up with a 13-5 GOP House delegation (two years ago, the Dems held a 12-7 edge, meaning we would have gained 6 seats and the Dems would have lost 7). And the Senate race is an uphill, but not impossible, battle for Tom” mSmith.
Glad to hear that Patrick Murphy lost; betcha he wishes he had run against Fitzpatrick in PA-08 instead.
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