Philly Election Day Open Thread

11:00, District 8, Tom Mulkeen

With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, Cindy Bass will win her race to be the Democratic nominee in the 8th district.  Bass currently has 8,573 votes.  Greg Paulmier is currently in second with 4,659, and Verna Tyner is in third with 4,061.  No Republican is running against her.

11:01, District 6, Frank Filkosky
With a148/160 precincts reported, Bobby Henon has received 65 percent of the vote and looks to be in the driver’s seat against Marty Bednarek in the race for city council.  It appears Henon will win the Democratic nomination in the 6th district.

11:00, District 7, Tom Mulkeen

With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, Maria Quinones Sanchez will win her race over Dan Savage.  She currently leads him 6,989 to 4,578 in a race that was supposed to be closer.  She will win in November as well because there is no Republican running against her.

10:35, City Council At Large (Democrats), John McDonald

The top five vote-getters in the Democratic field of fourteen candidates will move on to November’s general election virtually assured of one of seven at-large council seats.  With 80 percent of the divisions reporting, incumbent Wilson Goode Jr., currently in fifth place with 9.5 percent of the vote, maintains a lead of less than .5 percent over challenger Sherrie Cohen.  Bill Green (13.8) leads the field with 13.6 percent, followed by fellow incumbent Blondell Reynolds Brown (13.6 percent) , Bill Greenlee (11.7 percent) and Jim Kenney (10.2 percent).
10:25, District 8, Tom Mulkeen

 

With 15 percent of the precincts now reporting, Cindy Bass leads the field of seven candidates to replace Donna Reed Miller.  She has 2,357 votes, Verna Tyner is second with 1,239, Greg Paulmier is third with 1,153, and Howard Treatman is fourth with 889 votes.

10:20, City Commissioners, John McDonald
Tartaglione has fallen out of the top two in the Democratic field of seven (the top two candidates from each field advance to the General Election).  Challenger Stephanie Singer is at 20 percent with 75 percent of the precincts counted.  Incumbent Anthony Clark leads Tartaglione, 16.7 percent to 16.3 percent.  On the GOP side, Schmidt has pulled nearly even with the incumbent Duda at 35 percent each.
10:20, Mayor, Geoff Middleberg

 

FOX Philadelphia wants to know if Nutter won by a big enough margin?

10:10, District 7, Tom Mulkeen

Maria Quinones-Sanchez is maintaining her lead by about a fifteen percent margin right now.  She leads Savage by a margin of 5,879 to 4,359 with 81 percent of the precincts reporting.

10:02, District 6, Frank Filkosky
Henon is still ahead at this point with 65 percent of the vote to Bednarek’s 35 percent. Almost seven thousand votes are in at this point following the low voter turnout.
9:55, District 2, Jared Edgerton

 

With 96 percent of the precincts reporting Johnson has pulled ahead by 41 votes with 7,382. Capozzi is behind with 7,341 votes. The race is too close to call.

9:35, City Commissioners, John McDonald

With 50 percent of precincts reporting, challenger Stephanie Singer (18.8 percent) has overtaken nine-term incumbent Marge Tartaglione (17.5 percent) for the lead among the seven Democratic candidates for city commissioners.  Incumbent Anthony Clark trails close behind the two with 17.1 percent. 

Incumbent Joe Duda leads the GOP field with 37.2 percent of the vote, while Al Schmidt has moved into second place with 32.6 percent.

The top two vote-getters from each party will compete for the three city commission seats in the November general election.

9:35 District 2, Jared Edgerton

With 70 percent of the precincts reporting Capozzi has grown her lead to 5,888 votes. Johnson trails her with 5,346 votes.

9:25, GOP Council At Large, John McDonald
Longtime incumbent Frank Rizzo – for years the leading vote-getter among Republican council-at-large  candidates – is in seventh place (out of nine candidates) with 40 percent of the precincts reported.   Lawyer David Oh, who nearly unseated retiring Councilman Jack Kelly four years ago, leads the field with 18.3 percent.  He is followed by state Rep. Dennis O’Brien (16.4 percent), Joe McColgan (13.9 percent), Al Taubenberger (13 percent) and Michael Untermeyer (11.9 percent)
9:25, District 7, Tom Mulkeen

 

With 69 percent of the precincts now reporting, Sanchez maintains her healthy lead over Savage by a margin of 5,261 to 3,653.

9:25, District 2, Jared Edgerton

With 50 percent of the precincts reporting Capozzi now leads with 4,135 votes. Johnson trails with 4,049 votes.

9:25, District 1, Jared Edgerton

With 75 percent of the precincts reporting Squilla still leads with 6,482 votes. Grace is in second with 2,727 votes. Hornstein is in third with 2,308 votes and Anastasio is now in last with 2,246 votes. Squilla’s lead is enough to predict his victory for the District 1 primary election.

9:20, Mayor, Abhinav Parameshwar

 

With 34.02% of the precincts reporting, Nutter is ahead with 37,367 votes to Street’s 13,457. This amounts to 73.45% of the votes.

9:20, District 7, Tom Mulkeen

 

With 46 percent of the precincts reporting, Sanchez now leads Savage by a healthy margin of 3,808 to 2,391.  That’s about a 13 percent difference.

9:10, City Commissioners, John McDonald

With 25 percent of precincts reporting, Marge Tartaglione leads the Democratic field of seven candidates with 18.4 percent of the citywide vote.  Fellow incumbent Anthony Clark (17.7 percent) is clinging to a small lead over challenger Stephanie Singer (17.1 percent). 

Among the Republicans, incumbent Joseph Duda leads with 37.3 percent of the vote.  Marie Delany has garnered 32 percent of the vote and Al Schmidt has earned 30.7 percent thus far.

9:10, District 1, Jared Edgerton

 

With 50 percent of the precincts reporting Squilla has a commanding lead with 4,922 votes. Grace is closest with 1,468 votes. In third is Anastasio with 1,114 votes and Hornstein remains in last with 883 votes.

9:00, District 6, Frank Filkosky

Early on with about 2,500 votes counted, Bobby Henon is in the lead over Bednarek holding about 68 percent of the vote
8:55, District 7, Tom Mulkeen

 

With 21 percent of the precincts reporting, Sanchez leads Savage by a tight vote count of 1,221 to 1,201.

8:45, District 1, Jared Edgerton

 

With 20 percent of the precincts reporting Squilla leads with 2,680 votes, followed by Grace with 477 votes. In third is Anastasio with 363 votes and Hornstein is in last with 159 votes. Squilla has jumped out to a strong lead.

8:45, District 2, Jared Edgerton

 

With 20 percent of the precincts reporting Johnson leads Capozzi with 1,803 votes to 1,093 votes.

7:00, Citywide, Geoff Middleberg
Heard in the Hall has an update from the Committee of 70: 

Latest turnout update from the Committee of Seventy as of 6 p.m.:

Here are random checks of two divisions in the districts with the most contentious Council races: First District (DiCicco seat); Second District (Verna seat); Sixth District (Krajewski seat); Seventh District (Quiñones Sánchez. v. Savage) and Eighth District (Donna Reed Miller seat).

Ward 2, Division 1 (First Councilmanic District): 116 voters/736 registered
Ward 39, Division 6 (First): 170 voters/506 registered
Ward 39, Division 4 (Second Councilmanic District): 100 voters/467 registered
Ward 39, Division 36 (Second): 64 voters/591 registered
Ward 45, Division 23 (Sixth Councilmanic District): 112 voters/ 642 registered
Ward 45, Division 25 (Sixth): 60 voters/542 registered
Ward 7, Division 12 (Seventh Councilmanic District): 50 voters/895 registered
Ward 19, Division 8 (Seventh): 67 voters/ 665 registered
Ward 9, Division 9 (Eighth Councilmanic District): 189 voters/835 registered
Ward 9, Division 8 (Eighth): 103 voters/482 registered

6:45, City Council Districts 2 & 6, Geoff Middleberg
Heard in the Hall has an update: 

David Snelbaker, a 44-year-old metal worker, liked both State Rep. Kenyatta Johnson and Barbara Capozzi but cast his vote for Capozzi because Johnson already held elected office and could continue to work for Philadelphians in Harrisburg. The two are vying with Tracey Gordon to replace Council President Anna C. Verna, who is retiring in January after 36 years in office.
Snelbaker also voted for Andy Toy in council’s at-large race because of his economic development proposals. He was less familiar with the other candidates. Toy is one of 14 candidates vying for five Democratic nominations for Council at-large.

Ori Feibush, a real-estate agent, knows Capozzi through work. He believes she will work to put vacant lots owned by the city and other government entities back into private hands so they can be developed. “I’m excited to see someone who will make changes in this neighborhood,” said Feibush, 27, who lives near 20th and Catherine streets.

In Torresdale, Holmesburg and other North Philadelphia neighborhoods ,Bobby Henon and Marty Bednarek signs seemed to cover about half of the grassy areas. Supporters of each candidate stood outside most polling places. Henon and Bednarek are looking to succeed retiring Joan Krajewski in the Sixth Councilmanic District.

Outside the Torresdale Youth Club, which served as the neighborhood polling place, John Donohoe, an electrician for Local 98, said he had knocked on about 200 doors for Henon in the last three weeks. Henon is political director for Local 98.

6:20, District 2, Jared Edgerton

 

Capozzi is still pushing for votes tweeting “don’t let the rush hr traffic stop ya [you] from voting.” Both Jonson and Capozzi are working hard for votes in the last two hours before the polls close.

5:25pm, City-wide, PhillyClout

The folks at PhillyClout have a run-down of election day mischief, including:

  • Danny Savage’s successful effort to ban flyers in D-7.
  • John Featherman’s unsuccessful effort to block flyers city-wide.
  • State Rep. Jewell Williams’ successful effort to block flyers for her Sheriff opponent in the 8th Ward.
  • Bobby Henon’s effort to block flyers from Marty Bednarek in D-6.

4:55, District 1, Jared Edgerton

According to Chris Shores,  Anastasio’s Communications Director, the campaign is making a strong final push. “We knocked on 10,000 doors between Monday and Sunday and plan to hitting another 10,000 doors today.” The surge is brought on by good fundraising over the last few days leaving the Anastasio campaign “feeling good.”

Shores says that Anastasio has “broad support from deep South Philly to Queen Village all the way up to Port Richmond and Kensington.”

Anastasio has been using volunteers for “working polls throughout the district and “making phone calls.” Shores believes that the winner will be decided by “whoever the First District residents believe will do the best job cleaning up City Hall.” Emphasizing that Anastasio has positioned himself as “a consistent and outspoken advocate for reform and not beholden to the political machine or any other special interest.” Shores think this will be enough to send Anastasio to City Hall.

4:30, District 1, Jared Edgerton

Micah Mahjoubian, from Joe Grace’s campaign, has a “very good” feeling about the election today. Mahjoubian reports that Grace has, “a huge field team working” and that they have seen “little presence from Hornstein volunteers and nothing from Anastasio.”

Even the weather is not holding Grace’s campaign back, “the weather is bad but we prepared for that,” adding that “everyone has rain jackets.”  The campaign has volunteers “calling voters” and “driving people to the polls.”

The only problem that Grace’s campaign has encountered so far is dealing with a rumor started by Hornstein supports, accusing Grace of “not living in the district.”

Mahjoubian reiterated that the “turnout is not very high.”

3:30, District 7, Tom Mulkeen

To no one’s surprise, there have been reported problems in the heated race between incumbent Maria Quinones-Sanchez and Daniel Savage.  The Sanchez campaign claimed that inside polling places in the 43rd ward, Democratic officials were distributing materials and t-shirts promoting Savage.  The Savage campaign complained that officials at voting sites were acting in a “biased way” towards Sanchez in the 43rd ward. WHYY Newsworks has the story.

The 43rd ward is in the Hunting Park neighborhood in Philadelphia which is very Hispanic and was one of PoliticsPa’s neighborhoods to watch for voter turnout in our preview.

The story does not end there.  The Savage campaign just sent out a press release with an attached petition suing Sanchez in Philadelphia County court claiming that Donna Aument, ward leader in the 33rd ward and Sanchez backer, has been posting and handing out illegal flyers attacking Savage in the fourth, fifth, and sixth division in the ward.  The flyer claims that Savage tried to put a Methadone clinic in the neighborhood, which Savage says is false.  Also, the Savage campaign claims the flyer is illegal because it does not explicitly say who paid for and produced them.

3:20pm, Philly District 2, Jared Edgerton

PoliticsPA contacted Barbara Capozzi about her thoughts on the election. Capozzi feels, “very positive,” stating that “everyone is doing their job.” Capozzi is only disappointed with the poor voter turnout which she partially attributes to the bad weather. However, she is pleased that people in her “neighborhood are coming in [to vote].”

Capozzi has volunteers “making phone calls, going door to door and using a sound truck.” When asked about swing precincts Capozzi said “all precincts are too close to call” and that she was “unwilling to predict the outcome.” During the day Capozzi said she has made 25 campaign stops.

Johnson’s campaign is also using supporters for “knocking on doors, making phone calls, and providing rides to the polls.”

2:45, District 1, Jared Edgerton

Voter turnout for the Philadelphia Council District 1 seat is expected to be lower than anticipated because of the rainy weather.

Mark Squilla took to his facebook page urging voters to, “reach out to all your friends,” and that he needs greater “voter turnout.” Despite the bad weather, Josh Cohen, from the Squilla campaign “feels good about what is happening so far.” Cohen says Squilla “has the most manpower on the streets” and predicts that voters will “turnout in the next few hours.”

The other candidates have been busy this morning as well. Jeff Horrnstein got an early start greeting voters at the Society Hill Towers. He will have to do well in this area if he expects to win.

The race is expected to be tight because no clear front-runner emerged during the primaries.

2:15, District 8, Tom Mulkeen

As expected turnout is light in Philadelphia due to the absence of a high profile mayoral primary which tends to be the only thing that drives voters to the polls in a off-year election.  Also, rain is expected throughout the day which is not helping.  The Committee of Seventy watchdog group told the Inquirer that turnout was “abysmal,” and was under 10% at several wards across four different districts as of 10:30 this morning.

In the 8th district, the favorite to win the race between seven candidates, Cindy Bass told the Daily News that she cast the 84th vote at her polling site and that turnout would be better than expected.

Also, there has been at least one complaint regarding campaign workers being a little to aggressive in Germantown where one mother said she brought her child home from school because of it according to the Inquirer article.  As we reported in our preview, Germantown is very important to a number of candidates who have ties to the neighborhood.

2:00pm, Philly District 2, Jared Edgerton

The rainy weather is not stopping the democratic primary candidates for Philadelphia Council District Two.

Barbara Capozzi got an early start, already making eight campaign stops across the district and has taken to her twitter page to urge voters to come out and vote.

Capozzi will have to rally her supports if she hopes to win the election. Kenyatta Johnson enjoys a name recognition advantage over Capozzi having represented 70 percent of district two in Harrisburg since 2008.

Mark Nevins, a senior staffer for Johnson, believes the campaign has done everything they “need to do to put ourselves in a position to win.”

The election is expected to have low voter turnout.

One Response

  1. The Philly vote is probably going to top-out around 14-15% of the ACTIVE voters for the DEMs (approximately 100,000 out of the 700,000 active Dems). Don’t make the mistake of including the 100,000 IN-Active Dem voters to compute the percentages.

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