barton felder has a slight lead. will be a very long night, but it may be awhile before all of the official numbers come in. a lot of times, something in the eastern parts of the county, that includes his district -- the campaign spokesperson told me minutes ago that he felt confident that regardless of the outcome he feels very proud of the campaign he has run. >> we seem a very positive. his wife, all of us. we have done everything we can do, and today is the day. we will find out if the voters decide on joe barton felder or not. we are upbeat about it and positive. >> we do expect that he will make an appearance at some point, but likely will not be until more official numbers come in. we will continue to monitor the numbers and the mood here at campaign headquarters. for now, we are reporting live from parksville. >> thank you so much. we have a lot more coming your way. we want to go right now to the race for governor. martin o'malley has won the democratic nomination for governor. martin o'malley beat ralph jaf

he is a lawyer and barton felder a farmer.caught up with them at their respective camps last night. here are their thoughts on the primary. >> i've never ever seen an election turnout this low and it was so low, it was unbelievable. it was a good day, good weather day. they didn't turn out. that is a shame. >> the numbers have been cast. they just haven't been recorded. once recorded them, we can confirm where we safely are and have some good news for our camp we hope. >> now, the winner of this race will face off against ken holt, republican ken holt coming up. sherrie johnson abc news. >> the show is on. former governor ehrlich topping brian murphy who was endorsed by palin. o'malley winning easily over jaffee. >> the people spoke and believe me in seven weeks they speak very loud in the state of maryland. >> we'll see a november 2nd rematch of the 2006 maryland governor's race. >> primary day is in the books and the votes have been cast but was drastically low. the turnout was really a surprise at the polls. far fewer voter

he defeated joe barton felder. we have a look at that contentious race. [applause] more than 15 hours after primary polls closed and after exchanging congratulatory voice mails, kevin cabinet publicly called him to support his campaign as he now faces a republican in the november election for baltimore county executive. >> it is time that we put our differences behind us. i reach out to everyone in baltimore county to heal our divisions and join together because once again, i believe that we will be democrats united. >> in a concession statement, he said, i would like to thank all of my supporters, friends, and family. he goes on to say, i am proud of the campaign that we ran. there is no mention of an endorsement after a race often described as a bidder. republican nominee has already firing shots for running a ugly primary campaign. >> he focused on joe's record 20 years ago. then he distorted the record. i think that was entirely unfair. i think really very inappropriate and off the mark for this campaign. >> he made no apologies. >> look, it is the sa

and barton felder has conceded. >> tonight i reach out to everyone in baltimore county to heal our division pull in together because once again i believe that we will be democrats united. -p>> kamenetz will face former republican state delegate ken holtz in november's generall3 election. >>> for the candidates it was a frustratiig night as they waited on slow returns. ellction officials say it was human error. after polls closed some workers shutdown voting mmchines, locked them up and then forgot to tally the votes inside, the issue was eventually fixed. received the support of his biggest challenger in a republican primary. ú%ian murphy joinnd him and shooo the two men's hand. murphy said he decided to run for governor because he is fiscally conservative and and fees for marylanders.g taxes keeping the status quo is the reason forgiving endorsement. meanwhile, ehrlich used the endorsement to attract it comes %-democrats.g independence and >>> the cuttback on the bush tax cuts. to raise taxes onnthe weallhiest americans. molly waner berger tells us >> reporter: president owe a oa speaking

results show kevin kamenetz leading barton felder right now.smith is live at, ay idea when that ill be vote. >> reporter: kevin kamenetz is up 6,000 vvtts,, ven though there'ss13 pres 13 precinct havo report. they are announcing a ampaign conference lattr today. -t seems that we might know quite a scene at the cal pain headquurters -- campaign headquarrers, tte nerves werr up. we were at theebartenfelder, around computers and at the kamenett camp, they were more popositive. candidate was going to endorse s the followers with a victory speech. that idn't happen. conclusion. we had a roblem with the board of elections with the machinee. >> until they et the computtrs back up, we won't have those numbers. so ww have the counts from what ú% have from those precincts.3 we had about 4,000 vote-lead on the numbers that we had. >> reeorttr: one of thooe preccnnts is known barttnfelder prrcinct. they will be making up votes 44% of 6,000 vote lead for kevin kamenetz. later this morning he will announcc plans for the future it seems for ttis campaign. ú%