Dem Primary Results in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, Returns in Arkansas

It's official, Joe Sestak has defeated Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania.

Rather refreshingly, Specter is staying relatively classy:

Specter also said he called Sestak to congratulate him and tell him he thinks it's vital to keep the seat in the Democratic Party.

I don't expect him to aggressively stump for Sestak, first, he's an 80 year-old cancer survivor, and second, he lost in large part because of his unpopularity, but I expect a joint press conference in the next few days.

And in the Democratic primary for Senate in Kentucky, Conway beats Mongiardo in a close one, so the good Dem beats the faux (anti-abortion, etc.) Dem.

In the special election in PA-12 to replace Murtha, Mark Critz defeated Tim Burns, which means that the Dems hold on to the seat, but Critz is the a seriously right wing Dem, rather far to the right of Murtha, who he worked for as a staffer.

On the other hand, both Congressional campaign committees dumped a lot of money on this, so it's a good sign that Critz won, and that it was not particularly close.

It's still to soon for Arkansas, but right now, it looks like it will be headed to a runoff, because neither Blanche Lincoln nor Bill Halter will get 50% of the vote.

As it stands right now it's Bill Halter with 42.65%, Blanche Lincoln 43.26%, and DC Morrison with 14.09%, with 53% reporting, which means that Halter or Lincoln would need to get somewhere around 58% of the remaining votes to avoid a runoff, which is not going to happen.

The only question now is who will finish in 1^st place.

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There will therefore be a runoff on June 8.