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A slow night at Wheatley HQ

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Via Alex Zimmerman:

SAVOY, STRIP DISTRICT-- Here's a pic from Wheatley HQ - handful of people so far. Pretty tame compared to the "Paint the Town Pink" 'pretty living' magazine launch party upstairs.

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Wards to watch

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The Peduto campaign is live-tweeting results from wards/districts citywide. So far they've only listed one where Jack Wagner has won (in Luke Ravenstahl's homebase), though there are some close results in Brighton Heights in the North Side.

We're told bellwethers could be these wards: 11-12-13 in East Liberty over to Homewood; the 20th and 29th in the West End; and the 27th (Brighton Heights). Watch the ward totals at the PG's nifty site here.

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Wagner spox: We feel good

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From Rich Lord:

"We feel good about the numbers in the North, South and West, and that's where we put our people," said J.J. Abbott, spokesman for Jack Wagner's mayoral campaign, minutes after the polls closed. He said there was no indication of "any huge surge" in the eastern neighborhoods where rival Bill Peduto is believed to be strongest.

Mr. Abbott was quick to add that the Wagner campaign also had poll workers and door knockers in many eastern neighborhoods, including the African American wards and blue collar areas. He said the campaign identified 19,000 supporters, and made sure that every one of them was contacted twice and reminded to vote.

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Who will low turnout hurt?

Published by Tim McNulty on .

Election day

We should know who Pittsburgh's next mayor will be in about two hours -- sorry Josh Wander; there are five times as many Democrats as Republicans in this city -- unless things are exceptionally tight.

The story of the day so far may continue being the story through the night. Turnout is low, so the question is how that affects each candidate. One argument is low turnout will hurt Bill Peduto, since those who don't show are his kind of voters -- young, new, undecided. Or it could affect all the candidates the same -- maybe Jack Wagner's voters and Jake Wheatley's will stay at home at the same rate as Peduto's, and the latter could even get a boost by the traditionally high-turnout East End.

Results links are here.

If you're only paying attention to local politics tonight you should know that there's been a bad shooting in the city's East Hills neighborhood where a baby is reportedly one of the victims. Our breaking news site will have details.

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