Sestak preferred over Specter by 'Netroots Nation' straw poll (CNN)

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Posted: August 15th, 2009 04:43 PM ET

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart


Rep. Joe Sestak beat out Sen. Arlen Specter in a straw poll conducted at the 2009 Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Rep. Joe Sestak beat out Sen. Arlen Specter in a straw poll conducted at the 2009 Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh, an annual gathering of liberal online political activists and bloggers.

Sestak received 46 percent of the vote, while Specter got 10 percent, in this unscientific survey of 235 attendees who participated. Sestak is challenging Specter in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary.

Specter left the Republican Party earlier this year to became a Democrat.

Thirty-three percent of those queried in the straw poll said they did not know who they supported in the upcoming Democratic primary and seven percent said they supported neither Sestak nor Specter.
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[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. From the beginning,

I've said that Sestak will win.

He's remarkably appealing, and Specter has done everything wrong. The latest was how awful he looked at the town meeting, where he was yelled at by the goofball. He looked positively lost and helpless, and that's an image people will remember............