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GOP Leading in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Vacancy
Commonwealth Website (updating) ^ | 3 November 2009 | Secretary of State

Posted on 11/03/2009 8:42:08 PM PST by Vigilanteman

Joan Orie Melvin is maintaining a 6% lead over Jack Panella for the lone vacancy on the Commonwealth Supreme Court. This contest is considered critical due to a 3-3 party split in the current court makeup. Panella had been heavilly favored to win, but in the waning days of the campaign, his lead dwindled and he begin running attack ads on Orie Melvin as a right wing extremist.

(Excerpt) Read more at electionreturns.state.pa.us ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: election; pennsylvania; supremecourt
There are still 8% of the precincts not reporting, mainly in the Philadelphia area, but a 6% margin may be enough to eek out a victory.

I was lukewarm about Orie Melvin as she doesn't exactly have the best conservative credentials. Panella tried to sell himself as a non-partisan moderate Democrat, but when the public decided that the Commonwealth had suffered enough under the yoke of Obama's rulers, Panella turned to attack ads.

1 posted on 11/03/2009 8:42:09 PM PST by Vigilanteman
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In related news, Sen. Arlen Specter has announced that he would like to switch parties again.

    ;-)

2 posted on 11/03/2009 8:50:46 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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Thanks for the report.


3 posted on 11/03/2009 8:51:26 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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There are still 8% of the precincts not reporting, mainly in the Philadelphia area, but a 6% margin may be enough to eek out a victory.

Philadelphia will manufacture as many votes as it takes for the scumbag rat to win the election. In the past, the Philly rats would at least have to keep an eye out for the FBI, but not these days. Nowadays the FBI is just another corrupt tool of Ubama and Holder and the rest of the rats. Anything goes....

Sorry, but I think the rat will end up with more "votes".

4 posted on 11/03/2009 8:56:27 PM PST by Lancey Howard (Go Phillies!)
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Well, we're down to the last 3.5% of precincts to report and Orie Melvin's 6% lead is still holding.

More interesting is Republican candidates in the Court of Common Pleas are running nearly even in Democrat strongholds like Montgomery County, so voters really are sending a message to ObaMao.

5 posted on 11/03/2009 9:02:47 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Karl Rove on Fox just commented on your Judgeship race and several others in PA and some others in State races in VA and other states across the country - where Repubs are leading or have won them all.


6 posted on 11/03/2009 9:04:45 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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Good! I overheard one of the local union hack poll workers at out local precinct lamenting the fact that Democrats were having a harder time winning local offices despite being over 60% of Westmoreland County’s registered voters.


7 posted on 11/03/2009 9:09:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Funny how this jobless “recovery” is affecting even long time Dems!!!


8 posted on 11/03/2009 9:10:57 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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I find it interesting that in the rural PA county where I live, the election results show that the Republicans were voting in about a 2 to 1 ratio compared to the Democrats. The conservatives are motivated. Usually the ratio here is about 1 to 1. Pennsylvania has a large rural population, if the trend is statewide the numbers will demand attention.


9 posted on 11/03/2009 9:13:57 PM PST by whodathunkit
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I’m going to bed. I see statewide precincts reporting still is frozen at 97.43%. I hope the 2.57% isn’t enough to reverse what has been a good night’s trend in our state.


10 posted on 11/03/2009 9:14:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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The Inquirer endorsed Orie Melvin, very unusual. May have helped sway some votes in Philly.
11 posted on 11/03/2009 10:05:25 PM PST by Dems_R_Losers (U.S. Out of My Doctor's Office!!)
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