Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Election Day 2010 LIVE BLOG (video)

BuxMontNews.com Staff Writers Tom Sofield and Jeff Bohen are covering the local elections that affect you. We are looking for you to submit polling place updates/problems or election related to photos to vote@buxmontnews.com. Keep checking our site for the latest election day information updated through-out the day as updates come in.
November 3, 2010 6:12 a.m.: Thank you following our live blog coverage of the 2010 election. This is the end of our election live blog. Be sure check back with BuxMontNews.com all day for updates, recaps and other local news.


12:30 a.m.:This e-mail about absentee ballot counting was sent out by Bucks County.

http://www.buckscounty.org/news/2010/2010-11-01-AbsenteeBallotCounting.aspx - Jeff Bohen


12:05 a.m. With Close too 99 % of the Preceints reported Pat Toomey is now Senator Elect and Mike Fitzpatrick will be the 8th Congressional Dist Rep in the House. - Jeff Bohen
We will have an Early Morning Wrap-Up Tomorrow with all the big winners! - Jeff Bohen
11:52 Speaker Elect Bohner Cries while challenging Obama "To work with the peoples house." Toomey's Lead Grows, Fitzpatrick is a Winner! Senate Majority Leader Reed Leads by 8 % in Las Vegas. - Jeff Bohen

11:18 p.m.: Out of 67 counites in PA Onorato leads in only four and one of them in Montgomery County.

Via. Twitter @ericrace1: "PA-8 House Race: Mike Fitzpatrick vs. Patrick Murphy...most Irish campaign ever." - Tom Sofield

96 percent of polling locations reporting in for the Fitzpatrick - Murphy race and Fitzpatrick has won. - Tom Sofield

11:09 p.m.: With all of Philadelphia counted, Toomey leads by less than 4400 votes. - Jeff Bohen

11:02 p.m.: Toomey is leading Sestak by 31,000 votes. The GOP seems to leading in the area now. - Tom Sofield

10:50 p.m.: It is safe to say at this point that Sen Greenleaf will be re-elected! He leads by a 2:1 margin at this point in time.

Rep. O'Neill is leading by the same ratio and appears to have been sent back to Harrisburg.
The real question one has to ask about the Rep for the 29th Legislative Dist of Pa is when does he run for a National Seat? - Jeff Bohen

10:46 p.m.: Mike Fitzpatrick is increasing his new found lead by the thousands. He leads Rep Murphy by 16,000 votes! - Jeff Bohen

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Republican candidate Pat Toomey with his children Patrick, age 9, and Bridget, age 10 after casting his vote in the rural Pennsylvania town of Old Zionsville November 2, 2010.Toomey is in a hotly contest race with Democrat Navy Admiral Joe Sestek.      UPI/John Anderson Photo via Newscom
Toomey voting with his children. (UPI/John Anderson)

10:40 p.m.: Toomey and Sestak are tied right now with 50 percent of the vote in the national watched race.

86 percent of the polling places are reporting in so this is a close race. - Tom Sofield

10:36 p.m.: Sources are telling us that with a 20,000 vote lead Mike Fitzpatrick is about to announce his win over Pat Murphy. - Tom Sofield

10:30 p.m.: The AP is calling Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz the winner over Dee Adcock in the Montgomery County race. - Tom Sofield


What did local voters have to say about today election check out our video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqs1eb9B7JM. Also e-mail us at vote@buxmontnews.com with your election opinion. - Tom Sofield


10:45 p.m: Toomey Takes lead over Sestak at 10:42 p.m.
10:12 p.m.: In a surprise Toomey is losing to Dem. Sestak by 4 points with 74 percent of polling places reporting in.

Just yesterday a poll was released that showed Toomey with a 5 percentage point lead.

Sestak campaigned all day yesterday and has been bringing in Democratic heavy weights like Bill Clinton. - Tom Sofield

9:25 p.m.: CNN is projecting that the GOP will be taking over the house.

Fitzpatrick at this point is losing to Murphy by 4 percentage points. Again reporting has just began and these numbers can and most likely will change. - Tom Sofield

8:35 p.m.: State Senator Greenleaf leads Damsker by a large margain in early reporting from Bucks County.

State Rep Bernie O' Neill is out distancing Challenger Feinberg in early reporting.

MSNBC is reporting that the Republicans will take the House of Representatives with estimates of having a total of 237 House Seats to Dems 198 Seats.
Reports have the Republicans gaining three seats in the Senate as of 9:05 PM
Democrat Joe Sestak is leading Republican Pat Toomey in early reporting by about 21,000 votes for the Senate Seat in PA.

MSNBC is calling Tom Corbett the winner in the Govenor's race in PA as of 10:03 PM
Were approaching the top of the hour with [polls closing in a number of states. Results soon to follow. - Jeff Bohen


8:36 p.m.: At 7:40 the polling location at the Southampton Youth Center still had a good amount of voters and District West 2 had almost 540 voters, a high turnout which was reported all over the area.

No serious problems were reported at local polling locations.

The Murphy - Fitzpatrick results may not be in until tomorrow when over 8,000 absentee ballots will be counted in Doylestown.

Numbers from local polls are starting to come in to us...stay tuned for numbers they will be coming in soon...

8:09 p.m.: Polls are closed in P.A., no precincts are reporting yet. Stay Tuned... - Tom Sofield

7:56 p.m.: We talked to some local voters this afternoon and evening here is what they had to say.


6:26 p.m.: Ivyland borough the smallest in Bucks County with about 800 residents and one polling location reported very good turn out today. - Tom Sofield


At Crooked Billet Elementary School in Hatboro a poll worker who did not want to be named said turn out seem to be large. The same poll worker also said, "How good turn out really was will not be seen until the end." - Tom Sofield
Crooked Billet Elementary School in Hatboro. (Tom Sofield)

5:32 p.m.: Mary Avino of the Churchville section of Northampton who voted at the fire station on Hatboro Road said, "This is election isn't who I am for, It's who I am against." - Tom Sofield


4:30 p.m.: In Upper Moreland ward 5 - 1 turn out is much higher than most mid-term elections. Officials tell BuxMontNews.com that 371 out of 900 people in the ward have voted as of 4 p.m. Election workers say an average number for past mid-term elections has been near 100 voters over the course of the entire day.

Good weather and a desire for change are what officials are thinking is leading to a high voter turn out. - Tom Sofield


1:52 p.m.: If you have any questions about voting go to the states website at http://www.votespa.com/.

Site is great you can even look up your polling location.

We are going to be heading out soon to check out some local polls.- Tom Sofield



Turn out seemed heavy this morning shortly after polls opened at Klinger
Middle School in Upper Southampton. (Tom Sofield)

1:08 p.m.: Joe Sestak's campaign just put out a tweet saying, @Sestak2010 "Polls close in 7 hours. We have not yet begun to fight."

A poll released yesterday showed Toomey in lead by five points. - Tom Sofield


12:02 p.m.: Twitter user @jtrex0830 " Actually stood in line to vote. Good sign in battleground 8th District of Pennsylvania race between Murphy and Fitzpatrick."


Republicans Kathleen Williams and Thomas McLaughlin hand out s
ample ballots to voters at the Upper Moreland School District Adminstration
building. (Tom Sofield)

The 8th District Race is getting even more ugly, The Trentonian newspaper reports a van carrying Murphy suporters was caught in Bristol, PA after residents called police saying the van with NY plates was taknig Fitzpatrick signs and replacing them with Murphy signs.


Police arrived and found no crime being commited.


Police tell the paper that the people in the white van were putting Murphy signs directly blocking Fitzpatrick signs. - Tom Sofield
11: 14 a.m.: Fast Fact: Corbett and Onorato have both spend upwards for $50 million this election.
GRADYVILLE, PA - NOVEMBER 2: Congressman Joe Sestak greets voters after casting his ballot on November 2, 2010 in Gradyville, Pennsylvania. Sestak faces off with Republican candidate Pat Toomey in the Midterm Election. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)
Joe Sestak coming out of his polling place after
voting this morning in Gradyville, PA.
Sestak is running against Republican
Pat Toomey. (Photo by William Thomas
Cain/Getty Images)
Montgomery County District








Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman has put eight county DA on responding to reports of election complaints.
The county D
A is working with the United States Attorney’s Office to prosecute people who are disturbing the voting process.

In MontCo. election complaints can be reported to the dispatch center at phone number 610-275-1222. - Tom Sofield

10:08 a.m.: Currently in Philadelphia where the NAACP is "doing a get out the vote" canvass in and around Temple University.

Students are reporting they intend to vote later on in the day "no matter what the numbers are saying."

More updates as the day continues- Jeff Bohen


8:48 a.m.: The polling location at Advent Lutheran Church in Richboro was busy this morning with people getting their vote in before they head off to work. - Tom Sofield



7:05 a.m.: The polls are open remember to go out and vote make your voice heard!


6:07 a.m.:
Poll Monitors in PA

The Justice Department has sent 400 election monitors to watch polls in 18 states.

The Justice Department announced this days after the Bucks County GOP made claims that the Democrats were using voter fraud to get more votes.


Governors Race; Corbett Leads

A new poll released yesterday shows that Corbett is leading Democratic challenger for govenor Dan Ontoronto by 10 percentage points.

Corbett canvased P.A. yesterday traveling from city to city by plane.

Onorato was at last nights University of Penn. rally that featured Michelle Obama. - Tom Sofield


November 2, 2010 4:32 a.m.: In approximately 2.5 hours polling places in the Bucks and Montgomery Counties will begin to let citizens enter to pull that all mighty lever.
In the last several months a number of credible media outlets have been predicting nothing short of a Republican landslide for the House of Representatives and Senate.
We'll see if the predicitons come to fruition on Decesion Day 2010.
At the State level, there are any number of races that will affect the direction Harrisburg will take when the next General Assembly is seated.
Stay with Tom and I as we give you tphe local flavor from the only place you can get it.
At the Polls and on the streets of BucksMont.
Two Bloggers. Twice the coverage!- Jeff Bohen


November 1, 2010 10:55 p.m.: Polls open in Pennsylvania at 7 a.m. statewide and are open until 8:00 p.m.

You can see whose running for office by visiting our VOTERS GUIDE. - Tom Sofield

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