Ned Lamont Joins Joe Sestak’s Call for a New Generation of Leadership

By SESTAK FOR SENATE

MEDIA, PA – Standing on the steps just outside Independence Hall, where our founding fathers declared their independence as a nation and signed our Constitutional rights into law, former Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Ned Lamont declared his public support for Congressman Joe Sestak to become Pennsylvania’s next Democratic Senator. Ned is one of the only Democratic challengers in our nation’s history to overcome an incumbent Senator in his party’s primary, having…

Lamont says Sestak’s Democratic principles come ‘from the heart’

A former U.S. Senate candidate who challenged his party’s incumbent in Connecticut endorsed Democrat Joe Sestak’s candidacy on Monday, saying that Sestak “knows where he stands politically.”

Ned Lamont, who beat Senator Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic primary in Connecticut before losing when Lieberman ran as an independent in the general election, equated the pressure Sestak has felt from party leaders not to run against Arlen Specter with what he experienced in running against…

A carrot-and-sticks routine from Joe Sestak

During his

3 lessons learned and 3 questions raised in the 3rd quarter (Updated)

The numbers are in, digested and covered to death.

So with third quarter FEC reports squarely in the rear-view mirror, pa2010.com returns to the big picture. With that in mind, we offer up the most important lessons learned from the early fundraising hauls, along with the questions still to be answered.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Joe Sestak has work to do. The fact that the Democratic Senate hopeful Full Story

The Great Specter-Sestak Race to the Left: Sestak Takes the Lead with Lamont Endorsement

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

Allentown, PA – While the pollsters frequently measure who is ahead in the Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Senate primary, another race is going on that is very troubling to Pennsylvanians.  Since Rep. Joe Sestak hinted he would enter the Democratic primary, he and Sen. Arlen Specter have been engaged in a constant race to demonstrate how closely they are aligned with the views and values of the extreme left-wing of the Democratic…

Corbett Recognized Need to Keep AG’s Office and Politics Separate – in 1996!

By GERLACH FOR GOVERNOR

EXTON (PA) — Even though his office continues investigating lawmakers and political operatives at the same time he is running for governor, Attorney General Tom Corbett seems less concerned today about avoiding conflicts of interest than he was a few years ago, the campaign of Republican Jim Gerlach said today.

Corbett told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a December 1996 interview that the Pennsylvania Attorney General should be an appointed position “to…

5 fun facts from the 3rd quarter

A few days after third quarter campaign finance reports were published, here’s a handful of interesting items that jumped out at us.

1. Why spend money when you’ve barely started running? Republican 7th District candidate Pat Meehan, only 16 days into his campaign when the third quarter closed Sept. 30, didn’t have to. The former U.S. Attorney spent a paltry $607, Full Story

Specter’s trouble in the polls

This pollster graph (after the jump) averages all the polls taken in this primary over time, and conveniently creates a line graph to illustrate trends in the electorate. Notice anything dramatic about the trend lines?

It is fairly obvious—the race is getting tighter. The more Democrats learn about Joe Sestak, the more they like him. Arlen Specter’s positives numbers are staying static or dropping, while Sestak is gaining ground. This can’t be good news for…

Another Toomey on the way

pa2010.com Central offers heartfelt congratulations to Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey and his family, who announced Monday that Toomey’s wife Kris is pregnant with the family’s third child.

The baby is due in May, right around primary time.

“Our children always seem to come along during election time,” Kris Toomey wrote in a

Former state Senator Williams endorses Trivedi

Former state Senator Connie Williams endorsed Democrat Manan Trivedi for Congress Monday, giving the Reading doctor his first high-profile party endorsement in a primary that has much of the Democratic establishment backing former Inquirer writer Doug Pike.

Williams, who opted last year not to seek reelection after more than a decade in the legislature, called Trivedi “representative of all people of in the 6th District.”

“His life experience, intellect, ability to connect with people and…