Primary Night Live Thread #1: Sestak Has Defeated Specter

And Ed Rendell is not a happy man. Turnout was a little better than I thought, but still dreadful.

Well, hats off to how terrific Joe Sestak ran this campaign. Most including me, as I have said countless times, thought he wasn't aggressive enough and didn't talk about himself enough to win in the party, seemingly letting Specter get out with his fake fierce lefty ties.

But he has played this perfectly, resulting in tremendous momentum and one of the greatest political ads of all time in this one:

Well done to him, as a classy move by Specter despite how devastated he is, and how mad some of his operatives are at Obama for passing the state by today.

And your haha of the night:

10:31 p.m.: Quickest pivot in history? The Dem establishment told us for months that Specter was the candidate to win the general election, but now the DSCC is already out with a memo hailing Sestak as the candidate who can win in November.

Tellingly, the memo hails Sestak as the candidate who has "proven he takes a back seat to nobody when it comes to shaking-up Washington and taking on the establishment."

By the way, national Dems originally recruited Sestak to run against Specter when he was a Republican. Irony of ironies!

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