I received my absentee primary ballot yesterday

[nini2287]

I'm going to vote:
Senator-write-in:  Jim Greenwood
Governor-Swann
Lt. Gov-Matthews
Rep-Bhakta
State Sen-Greenleaf (the only contested office)
State Rep-write-in: Josh Shapiro (Dem incumbent)

Then a bunch of state committeepeople (I need to select 23 and there's actually 23 on the ballot)-so if you'd like for me to write you in, let me know.  I have to select 11 males, 11 females and 1 either.

[Jake]

The only competitive race for me is the 20th District Senate Seat where we have five Republicans and a Democrat squaring off (I got polled for it today). I'd probably vote for Haggerty or Bigus, and will be pissed if Lisa Baker wins. Sherwood also has a no-name challenger.

[Keystone Phil]

Senator-write-in:  Jim Greenwood

  Oh well. The rest are good but I won't be thrilled with voting Raj.

I was thinking about the primary last night and we will have some interesting races. I'll follow the PA 8 primary (and PA 6 though we know Murphy has that), the Dem Lt. Gov. primary, the Dem Senate primary (just to see how much the two jokes end up getting) and the PA State House/Senate primaries (Jublierer vs. Eichelberger, Brightbill vs. Folmer, Baldwin vs. Bear, Cornell vs. Murt) And here I thought that just because we don't have a Gubernatorial primary we'd be stuck with a boring primary night.

Other interesting State Rep. races - Veon vs. Painsley (Dem) and Harris-Hackett-Stevenson out in the 42nd (mainly because I remember Harris as the Students for Toomey coordinator). It will be a very interesting night for State Rep. races.

[True Democrat]

My state representative district is going to be really competitive in the Republican primary.  The incumbent, Tom Stevenson, is really a do nothing congressman.  Then there's Dan Hackett, some guy who will get the least amount of the vote (maybe 10% or so).  Stevenson's only real competition is Mark Harris, a college student from GWU who graduated from my high school in 2002.  He is really really conservative (my teacher who him described as being to the right of Rick Santorum).  He's supported by a lot of Pat Toomey Republicans and people who are fed up with the same old thing in Harrisburg.    Right now, I would say it's too close to call, though maybe something like this:

Stevenson: 45%
Harris: 40%
Hackett: 10%
Others: 5%

As for the Democratic primary, there's only one candidate, who is actually could have a good chance of winning (my district is trending Demoratic slightly and with lack of incumbency and a heated Republican primary. . .)

[Keystone Phil]

Mark Harris, a college student from GWU who graduated from my high school in 2002.  He is really really conservative (my teacher who him described as being to the right of Rick Santorum).  He's supported by a lot of Pat Toomey Republicans and people who are fed up with the same old thing in Harrisburg.    Right now, I would say it's too close to call, though maybe something like this:

Stevenson: 45%
Harris: 40%
Hackett: 10%
Others: 5%

Just as I brought up in my edit. He has a lot of Toomey support (along with Toomey himself) because of his position on his campaign back in '04. There are only three Republicans on the ballot so assign the 5% for the "others" to Harris.  That's the bad thing about these local races - they're almost never polled so you have to totally guess who gets what. I hope he wins it.



May 16th will be my first time voting and, as I have brought up before, I will be running for office. I'm a candidate for committeeman along with one other guy (don't know his name but I found out I have one other opponent). I'll be guarenteed the spot since you have to have two committeepeople per precinct. It will be very cool to be voting for myself especially since it is my first time voting. Santorum will get my first vote though, then myself, then my State Rep., then Swann, then Matthews....then Raj.

[Dave from Michigan]

wow PA has early primaries ours isn't until Aug 2nd

[True Democrat]

Mark Harris, a college student from GWU who graduated from my high school in 2002.  He is really really conservative (my teacher who him described as being to the right of Rick Santorum).  He's supported by a lot of Pat Toomey Republicans and people who are fed up with the same old thing in Harrisburg.    Right now, I would say it's too close to call, though maybe something like this:

Stevenson: 45%
Harris: 40%
Hackett: 10%
Others: 5%

Just as I brought up in my edit. He has a lot of Toomey support (along with Toomey himself) because of his position on his campaign back in '04. There are only three Republicans on the ballot so assign the 5% for the "others" to Harris.  That's the bad thing about these local races - they're almost never polled so you have to totally guess who gets what. I hope he wins it.



May 16th will be my first time voting and, as I have brought up before, I will be running for office. I'm a candidate for committeeman along with one other guy (don't know his name but I found out I have one other opponent). I'll be guarenteed the spot since you have to have two committeepeople per precinct. It will be very cool to be voting for myself especially since it is my first time voting. Santorum will get my first vote though, then myself, then my State Rep., then Swann, then Matthews....then Raj.

He's not my type of Republican, but he's still certainly better than Stevenson, who does nothing for the community.  And I'd split the other support about evenly betwee the three candidates (Harris is strong challenger, Stevenson has incumbent appeal (which is really big here), and Hackett isn't Stevenson and isn't really conservative).