Still, with only about 200 people in the room, many of them Sestak staff and volunteers as well as union members in matching t-shirts, Sestak needed all the help he could get.
Sestak still needs all the help he can get.
Yesterday’s lukewarm show of support did little, if anything, to firm up Sestak’s prominence in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where politics is a bare-knuckled free-for-all.
But it could have been worse.
Joe Biden could have shown up.
For the record, Joe Biden managed only a slightly larger crowd in a similar venue in Greensburg, PA two short years ago. Then, as now, many of them were campaign staff and SEIU thugs in matching shirts.
Joe Biden only managed to get a crowd of 300 when he came to Scranton to campaign for Arlen Specter last Spring.