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Yesterday was primary election day for our lovely state of Pennsylvania.  It’s now more than apparent that Pennsylvanians want change as well, and removed politicians who have had a strangle hold on their seats for years.  I guess change is always a great thing.  Let’s take a look at the winners and the news they bring to the table for the upcoming official elections.

We’ll start with the absolute biggest news of the day.  It just so happened to make national news it was so huge.  Soon to be FORMER Senator Arlen Specter lost to Congressman Joe Sestak yesterday in what could be considered a shocker.  Arlen Specter is the longest running Senate member in the United States.  He’s been around long enough to see the JFK assassination and even give it a theory.  For the young readers out there, check out the “Magic Bullet Theory,”  Specter was the one that made it up.

During Specter’s conceding speech he made mention of a few points worth repeating here:

“It’s been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania…”

“I have just called Congressman Sestak to congratulate him and to tell him that I think it is vital that we keep this seat with the Democratic Party and I will support him in the election,”

“This election is about you,” he said. “It’s about you and everyone in this great Commonwealth who stood up and wanted their voices heard. This is what democracy looks like – a win for the people over the establishment, over the status quo, even over Washington, D.C.”

Now that Sestak is in control and running for the Senate seat, he’ll have to face Republican Pat Toomey in what should be a very close race.  Pat Toomey stated yesterday after finding out about Specter losing in the primary:

“I want to put those aside for a minute and acknowledge a man who has spent 30 years working very, very hard,” he said. “He’s worked hard for the people of Pennsylvania and I want to tell you, I will pledge to you that as your senator, I will carry on the work ethic – the tremendous work ethic that Sen. Arlen Specter demonstrated for the people of Pennsylvania.”

Moving on to the Pennsylvania Governor position, it’s now clear as to who will be running against each other for the seat.  Dan Onorato(D) and Tom Corbett(R).  We’ll start with Corbett first, who one in a landslide taking 70% of the vote with 90% of the districts reporting in.  His opponent, state Rep. Sam Rohrer, R-128, took the remaining 30 percent of the vote. That’s literally a blow-out.

Dan Onorato had resounding success as well.  He beat out three other hopefuls to take the Democratic bid for Governor.  Of the three he beat, one of them was Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Hoeffel, who after the defeat responded in a phone interview as saying:

“I called Dan Onorato earlier this evening and congratulated him on his impressive victory and told him I would fully and enthusiastically support him,” Hoeffel said in a phone interview Tuesday evening. “I look forward to doing everything I can to help.”

So now that we’re all set in terms of voting in the upcoming election, it was a great day by all.  Pennsylvania had a decent turn out and even kinda sorta shocked the world.

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