Archive for June, 2009
pa2010.com’s Top 10 Political Consultants
They’re the people pulling the political strings behind campaigns. The people who get politicians elected. The people journalists love to quote, even if they’re not exactly unbiased. They’re the people behind the scenes.
They are the Keystone State’s political consultants.
Few figures are as important to the inside-baseball game of politics we love to talk about here at pa2010.com. With that in mind, we present our first ever Top 10 Political Consultants.
In many ways,…
Full StoryThe First Read — June 22, 2009
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Specter and Sestak go back-to-back with DelCo Dems
BROOMALL—Delaware County Democrats packed the Marple Public Library’s meeting room here Thursday night to hear the party’s two leading Senate candidates…
Is Saidel the best candidate for Lt. Governor?
Jonathan Saidel may be pHowever, I wonder whether he is the best candidate. How about a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Shapiro" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://en.wikipedia.org']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJosh_Shapiro','Josh+Shapiro')" target="_blank"Josh Shapiro/a or a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Weissman" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://en.wikipedia.org']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRobin_Weissman','Robin+Weissman')" target="_blank">Robin Weissman? The Lt. Governor primary is about partnership, so, if Saidel finds a way onto the Onorato ticket, things look good. If not, at this point, someone is going to have to deal with him.
On Paul Samuelson, and how schools of economics inform policy
The Atlantic‘s Conor Clarke conducted
Full StorySome warning signs for the Democrats—Part 1
It’s still early, but there are indications that the honeymoon for the Obama adminstration may be coming to an end. Among the warning signs:
1. The New York Times yesterday published
Full StoryA pa2010.com midsummer breather
Just like that, it’s been exactly two months already since pa2010.com first went live.
And what a two months it’s been! We barely had a moment to take in our new creation when Senator Arlen Specter never-ending media blitz.
We’ve led the pack on covering GOP pressure on Pat Meehan to
Full StorySpecter and Sestak go back-to-back with DelCo Dems
BROOMALL—Delaware County Democrats packed the Marple Public Library’s meeting room here Thursday night to hear the party’s two leading Senate candidates speak one after the other, but the event had an away-game feel for incumbent Senator Arlen Specter.
Specter, who recently became a Democrat after decades as a Republican, took his re-election campaign to the political home base of his likely rival, Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7). And even as Specter sought to win over some…
Full StorySpecter fundraisers to meet in Philly, discuss Obama visit
A group of Democratic fundraisers organized by an ally of Gov. Ed Rendell will meet in Philadelphia Monday, and its members already have “homework”: coming up with a way to raise $5,000 each for Senator Arlen Specter’s campaign before the next Federal Election Commission deadline on June 30.
