Pennsylvania Primary Results

PA Dept. of State ^ | 4-24-12 | PA Dept. of State

[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%

[Elvina]

When a political party attacks it’s own base of supporters, demonizes them and works to rid themselves of that influence...and someone supports those who do it, well, they either don’t really believe the things they say they do or are lying to themselves and saying liberalism is really a conservative value.

I join you in acknowledging that the GOP is a lost cause. Not sure if there is enough enthusiasm for a third party. It's just comical when people in panic try to tell us that we're "choosing Obama" if we don't support ObamaLite aka Romney. Glad FR is still here for now. After that I have my family and our remote location.

[mosesdapoet]

Romney carried by 86,582 over combind “conservatives” that is pretty decisive. What the final will be still shows the conservative message didn’t get out. Romney is not going to move right. It’s going to be sameo-sameo and very very little change in policy direction. If Romney takes it we’ill be lucky if Obamacarte gets tossed let alone the changes in EPA or the other misdirected course the country is on.

[dforest]

I don’t think what you are seeing for turnout now will have much bearing on the national race.

When you get out and talk to most people, they don’t particularly care who the nominee is, they are just waiting to go out and get rid of Obama.

They should care, but since the choices weren’t all that exciting, this is what you get.

In a way, in Indiana, I hope that a lower turnout will garner a result that will bring out the most committed to getting rid of Lugar. If the POTUS candidate is decided, I think that might happen.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I had to chuckle over the ads Murphy’s challenger, Kathleen Kane, was running, especially the one which proudly touted that President Bill Clinton had endorsed her, she of the long, dark hair, short skirts, and high heels.

[pettifogger]

[Steven] Welch had been endorsed by Gov. Tom Corbett and the state GOP.

Welch had also supported D candidates as recently as 2010 -- he supported Democrat US Senate candidate Joe Sestak. He was also dogged by claims that he voted for Obama in 2008. Claims he denied. Hmmm.

Smith was a former D for 30+ years.

Both were claiming fiscal and social conservatism. We'll see.

For more: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2012/04/pa-gop-primary.php

[fatima]

Great Pat Murphy lost.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I just saw a few pictures of Kathleen Kane, and I must say, when she prosecutes a case, while there would be doubts concerning the guilt or innocence of the defendant, it would be clear that the prosecutor is Not Guilty. Murphy had no chance trying to get Clinton’s endorsement.

[Mountain Mary]

I agree. It’s all about the money and Mittens and his PACs raised millions over seven years.

[Fresh Wind]

Fun to see that lying, cheating POS Patrick Murphy get his @$$ handed to him. He was trying to rehabilitate his career. Luckily, it failed.

Well, he still has his ambulance chasing job to fall back on. I suspect this isn't the last we'll see of this floater.

[AuH2ORepublican]

John Fund agrees with me regarding Rothfus’s chances against Crtiz in November:

In the Pittsburgh suburbs, labor did better by winning a grudge match against Representative Jason Altmire, a key Blue Dog Democrat. Union leaders were furious at Altmire over his vote against Obamacare, claiming he had promised them he be vote for it before reneging in the end and opposing it.

Alleghany County Labor Council head Jack Shea put it bluntly: “He told a roomful of 60 labor leaders that at the end of the day, the last version of whatever the House bill was going to be, he would be there.”

As a result, the unions went all out for Representative Mark Critz, a former aide to the late Representative John Murtha, who was thrown into the same seat as Altmire through redistricting. Critz wasn’t yet in office when Obamacare passed in March 2010, and has expressed disapproval of much of the bill. But on the campaign trail he pounded away at Altmire’s vote for a Republican balanced-budget amendment, saying it would savage Social Security and Medicare.

In the end, the race came down to turnout and regional loyalty. Critz had only represented 27 percent of the new seat’s voters, but union workers made 36,000 phone calls and cranked up turnout so that 40 percent of the primary vote came from Critz areas. That mattered. Critz won an astonishing 90 percent of the vote in his home turf, managing to beat Altmire by two points.

But his success may be short-lived. The new congressional district actually tilts Republican, having given John McCain 54 percent of the vote in 2008. Republican nominee Keith Rothfus has more money in the bank than Critz does after the draining Democratic donnybrook, and Rothfus came within only a single point of defeating Altmire in 2010.

Look for a hotly contested liberal vs. conservative race this fall, but I’d give the edge to Rothfus, who will have both a united party and favorable demographics in his corner.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296949/liberals-unseat-moderate-democrats-pa-primary-john-fund

[GOPsterinMA]

I don’t know any of these people.

[HonestConservative]

Fund is a moron

[HonestConservative]

Ty the feel good story of the day

[campaignPete R-CT]

I stuck a Newt sign in the schoolyard lawn and gave 2 Paul signs to my neighbor and he hung em on a tree and I voted for Newt who came in 3rd in my city where 500 voted and 3rd in CT ... I was voter #29 at my school at 10am ... 4 hours to get 29 votes ...

[Impy]

Rothfus is gonna make crackers out of Critz.

[randita]

Rothfus is gonna make crackers out of Critz.

Let's hope so. It will be nice to be rid of that Murtha clone.