With 10% of precincts reporting, it’s a 50%-50% race between Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak. Specter leads by 54 votes out of 89,000. Specter leads 67%-33% in Philadelphia (the city and county are coterminous) with about 25,000 votes there. That’s a Philadelphia-heavy sample; Philadelphia cast only 19% of the votes in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, and it accounts for 28% of the votes in so far. A bad sign for Specter, in my view: Sestak is obviously leading elsewhere.
Update: as of 9:10, with 12% of districts (that’s the Pennsylvania word for precincts) reporting, Specter is ahead 50.5%-49.5%. That’s still with a heavy dose of Philadelphia.
