Joe Sestak not running in new PA-07

[krazen1211]

http://delcotimes.com/articles/2012/01/31/news/doc4f2768900b5ef295698789.txt?viewmode=fullstory

For weeks, area Democrats have been looking to a familiar face to run in the 7th Congressional District: Joe Sestak.

But according to Chester County Democratic Party Chairwoman Michele Vaughn, Sestak is not going to run. Sestak represented the district for four years, ending in 2011.




Safe R. Next.

[minionofmidas]

Boo.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Sestak is a douche for delaying his decision like this.

[krazen1211]

Sestak is a douche for delaying his decision like this.

He might be unopposed.



http://www.seventy.org/Elections_PA_2012_Election_Calendar.aspx

Last day to circulate and file nomination petitions for the following offices:

February 14     U.S. President, U.S. Senate, U.S. Representative, Attorney General, Auditor General,
State Treasurer and Delegate and Alternate to the National Convention

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Sestak is a douche for delaying his decision like this.

He might be unopposed.



http://www.seventy.org/Elections_PA_2012_Election_Calendar.aspx

Last day to circulate and file nomination petitions for the following offices:

February 14     U.S. President, U.S. Senate, U.S. Representative, Attorney General, Auditor General,
State Treasurer and Delegate and Alternate to the National Convention

Exactly, I'm pretty furious with him.

[Keystone Phil]

He wasn't going to win anyway.

[Keystone Phil]

Meehan won't go unopposed. The Dems had some other players interested in a run if Sestak didn't jump in. Sure, they start out with a horrible disadvantage and should be cursing Sestak but some of them have their own organizations that should be able to get them the required signatures in ten days. It will be even less fun and harder but it can be done.

[Mr.Phips]

Sestak was an idiot for leaving this seat to run for Senate in the first place.  If he had run for PA-07 in 2010, he likely would have been reelected and Republicans would have conceeded the seat to him by taking by swapping much of Chester and Lower Marion with Gerlach.  People with Sestak's intelligance dont deserve to be in Congress anyway.  Same goes for Brad Ellsworth in Indiana.  You dont leave your safe seat to run for Senate in a year where unemployment is 10% and your party holds the White House. 

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Sestak was an idiot for leaving this seat to run for Senate in the first place.  If he had run for PA-07 in 2010, he likely would have been reelected and Republicans would have conceeded the seat to him by taking by swapping much of Chester and Lower Marion with Gerlach.  People with Sestak's intelligance dont deserve to be in Congress anyway.  Same goes for Brad Ellsworth in Indiana.  You dont leave your safe seat to run for Senate in a year where unemployment is 10% and your party holds the White House. 

Good point. Democrats should have ceded all 33 Senate races by not running candidates at all. It was especially stupid to even contest this blue state seat. What?

[Mr.Phips]

Sestak was an idiot for leaving this seat to run for Senate in the first place.  If he had run for PA-07 in 2010, he likely would have been reelected and Republicans would have conceeded the seat to him by taking by swapping much of Chester and Lower Marion with Gerlach.  People with Sestak's intelligance dont deserve to be in Congress anyway.  Same goes for Brad Ellsworth in Indiana.  You dont leave your safe seat to run for Senate in a year where unemployment is 10% and your party holds the White House. 

Good point. Democrats should have ceded all 33 Senate races by not running candidates at all. It was especially stupid to even contest this blue state seat. What?

Democrats already had a candidate and incumbent here, Arlen Specter.  This is like if Steve Chabot tried to challenge Mike DeWine for the Ohio Senate seat in 2006.   

[Holmes]

Oh please, you're tiring. You know exactly what the situation was back then, revisionist.

[Keystone Phil]

Mr. Phips is right: Dems had a terrific candidate in Specter, a man who would have been comfortably defeated, allowing the GOP to spend more money on Senate contests in Colorado, Nevada and Washington.

[Mr.Phips]

Mr. Phips is right: Dems had a terrific candidate in Specter, a man who would have been comfortably defeated, allowing the GOP to spend more money on Senate contests in Colorado, Nevada and Washington.

Specter had horrible favorability ratings and trailed by much bigger margins than he trailed Toomey in 1992 and yet in the end, he won by three points thanks to hard negative advertising, which Sestak refused to do. 

[Keystone Phil]

Well, he didn't trail Toomey in 1992...

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There are seriously people who somehow think that Specter would have won in 2010?

[Ebowed]

Sestak was a far superior candidate to Specter in 2010.