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brooklynite

(94,588 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:23 PM Apr 2016

Sestak, McGinty in dead heat, per Monmouth poll (PA-SEN)

WASHINGTON – A new poll suggests Katie McGinty is surging to the finish line, for the first time catching up with fellow Democrat Joe Sestak as they vie for their party's U.S. Senate nomination in Tuesday's primary.

The Monmouth University poll released Wednesday found Sestak and McGinty dead even in the final days of campaigning. It is the first survey to show them close in a head-to-head match up. Sestak has led throughout the race, but McGinty's allies, including Democrats’ national Senate campaign arm, have spent more than $4 million in the past month to rally her campaign. An independent group backing Sestak has spent about $754,000 on his behalf.

The poll found that McGinty and Sestak each had 39 percent support among likely Democratic voters. Braddock Mayor John Fetterman had just 4 percent backing, while 18 percent remained undecided.

I'd say Fetterman is going down for the count.

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Sestak, McGinty in dead heat, per Monmouth poll (PA-SEN) (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2016 OP

Go, Katie farleftlib Apr 2016 #1

The McGinty DEP permitted 586 Marcellus Shale wells across PA, yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2016 #2

Go Joe, fighting against the machine! yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2016 #3

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)

1. Go, Katie

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:41 PM

Apr 2016

McGinty, Gov. Wolf’s former chief-of-staff, has received massive backing from Democratic leaders, including President Obama, Vice President Biden, Wolf and major labor unions. She has featured Obama’s endorsement in a string of ads while the Democratic women’s group EMILY’S List has spent more than $1.5 million attacking Sestak.

She's got lots of good Dems backing her and I think she'd beat Toomey handily.

yortsed snacilbuper

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2. The McGinty DEP permitted 586 Marcellus Shale wells across PA,

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:17 PM

Apr 2016

After DEP, McGinty went to work as Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Strategic Growth at Weston Solutions, Inc., a gas industry consulting firm and member of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, enjoying the revolving door open to regulators among companies they are supposed to oversee.

http://energyjusticesummer.org/candidate-katie-mcginty-the-environmentalist-for-fracking-fact-sheet/

yortsed snacilbuper

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3. Go Joe, fighting against the machine!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:25 PM

Apr 2016

A reporter last night asked Joe at the end of an interview: “Will you come in first?” Joe answered quietly, “yes.” But there are a lot of quiet “firsts” for Joe that lend credence to his quiet assurance:

• First in his class in Cardinal O'Hara High School

• First in his school to go to the U.S. Naval Academy

• First in his Naval Academy class to select sea duty

• First-rated officer on each of his ships

• First naval officer to go to Harvard for a doctorate since Vietnam

• First-rated command surface ship in the Atlantic Fleet

• First group in his class to make Admiral

• First to lead the Navy's anti-terrorism unit, Deep Blue, after 9/11

• First Democrat elected to Congress from his Republican district since Watergate

• First Congressman to keep his office open 7 days a week to help people

• First elder abuse legislation to pass the house in 17 years

• First movement of federal money into autism in 12 years

• First-rated in his Congressional class due to legislation and constituent service

• First to win re-election in a nearly 2 to 1 GOP district without spending any money on any ads

• First person to beat Senator Arlen Specter

• First Admiral to serve on Ploughshares board for nuclear disarmament

• First public servant to walk across Pennsylvania in the shoes of the people

• ….First Democrat to have $4.2 million in Democratic DC money spent against him because of the personal whim of one DC Senator.

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