GOP Buying State Senate Election in Southwestern Pennsylvania

[Canonsburg, PA]-  It is now clear where all of Kris Vanderman’s money is coming from: Harrisburg.

The Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s 46^th Senate District has been relentlessly attacking opponent Tim Solobay with television ads and mailings for months.  But because Vanderman has not filed a campaign finance report since early June, it was unclear how he was able to afford such a flood of attacks.  Vanderman, who had never before run for public office and…

Lou Barletta’s momentum is increasing

HAZLETON – With six days to go, the congressional campaign of Lou Barletta is gaining momentum.

Here are the facts:

• This morning, The Hill, a respected Washington, D.C., publication, released a poll that shows Lou leading 26-year incumbent Congressman Paul Kanjorski, 48-43. (
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Trivedi Enorsements Continue to Roll In

Trivedi Recieves Endorsements from Penn Environment, Friends of the Earth Action, and the National Stonewall Democrats

ELVERSON, Pa. With Election Day fast approaching, Manan Trivedi’s campaign for Pennsylvania’s 6th Congressional District continues to gain momentum as he picks up three more prominent endorsements. Today, the the National Stonewall Democrats, PennEnvironment, and Friends of the Earth Action, all threw their support behind Trivedi, who is rapidly gaining on Congressman Jim Gerlach.

Trivedi received an endorsement from…

Official Charges Filed Against GOP-Controlled Board of Elections for Illegal Voter Suppression

“Shameless” Republican plot to suppress Democratic vote rejected absentee ballot requests from quadriplegic, a 91 year old senior, others according to complaint filed against GOP Board

(Bristol, PA) – Official charges have been filed against the GOP-controlled Board of Elections after revelations surfaced that they have been systematically targeting and rejecting Democratic absentee ballot requests. The GOP Board rejected over 600 absentee ballot requests – 82% of which were sent in by Democratic voters. That’s…

State awash in campaign spending as DSCC releases new ad blasting Toomey

The scary Chinese are back …

pThe DSCC released a new ad for Sestak titled “a href="http://www.dscc.org/corning" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.dscc.org']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dscc.org%2Fcorning','Corning')" target="_blank"Corning/a” to run in the state during the last week before the election. The ad highlights a College Township, Centre County, plant owned by Corning, N.Y., based Corning Inc. In 2003, the plant shut down and the jobs sent to China. The ad then attacks Toomey for his votes granting China special trade status as well as corporate tax breaks that facilitated the outsourcing. The ad points out that the workers were directed to disassemble the machines before they, too, were shipped overseas./p
pa href="http://www.pa2010.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Toomey_Vets.jpg" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F06%2FToomey_Vets.jpg','Toomey_Vets')">The NRSC, meanwhile, last released a new ad touting Toomey on Oct. 13. Titled “ Full Story

Who’s “Qualified” to be a Politician?

Qualified

I heard somebody talking about the upcoming election and they said that neither Tom Corbett or Dan Onorato were qualified to be governor.  In my best Seth Meyers impersonation, all I could think to ask was really?

Much has been made about whether candidates are qualified for elected office over the past few years.  People criticized Barack Obama’s qualifications because he had been a US Senator for less years than Lost had been on…

Lycoming College in Williamsport Poll: Carney, Marino still tied while many undecideds linger. Is the Tea Party holding sway?

pLycoming College in Williamsport released a a href="http://www.lycoming.edu/news/documents/LycomingCollegePollPressReleaseOct262010.pdf" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.lycoming.edu']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lycoming.edu%2Fnews%2Fdocuments%2FLycomingCollegePollPressReleaseOct262010.pdf','poll')" target="_blank"poll/a Tuesday showing Carney leading Marino 45-39, but that is within +/- 5.7 percent margin of error. The poll results are based on a telephone survey of 296 likely voters conducted Oct. 17-21 by Lycoming students./p
pa href="http://www.pa2010.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/marino.jpg" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2Fmarino.jpg','marino')">Marino is winning Republicans by a margin of 64.4 to 20.8 percent while Carney pulls support from 75.3 percent of Democrats with 16.0 favoring the Republican. Carney is winning self identified independents 49.3 to 38.7 percent. Probably more significantly, 40.3 percent of respondents self-identified as Tea Party supporters and those voters break for Marino 76.8 to 14.7 percent.

“While this race has not been a heavy focal point for Tea Party activity,” said Dr. Jonathan…

Congressman Charlie Dent (R-15) and challengers John Callahan and Jake Towne square off at State Theatre in Easton

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Top Democratic Midterm surrogate, Bill Clinton, in PA again

pClinton will headline a get out the vote rally Thursday afternoon at Northampton Community College’s Spartan Center. Less than a week before the election, Clinton will try to motivate voters to come out and support Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan (D) who is challenging three term incumbent Charlie Dent to represent the 15supth/sup Congressional District and Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato who is running for governor against Attorney General Tom Corbett./p
pTraditionally campaign volunteers spend the weekend before the election phonebanking and canvassing for candidates in a last minute effort rally support for their candidates./p
pThe Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee (DCCC) is committed to Callahan’s race. The DCCC has listed Callahan as one of its 2010 a href="http://www.dccc.org/page/content/redtoblue" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.dccc.org']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dccc.org%2Fpage%2Fcontent%2Fredtoblue','Red+to+Blue')" target="_blank"Red to Blue/a candidates, a list of 29 challengers receiving support for surpassing fundraising goals./p
pDespite recent Democratic gains in Pennsylvania and nationwide, both Callahan and Onorato have significant ground to make up by Election Day. A a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_PA_1020.pdf" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.publicpolicypolling.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publicpolicypolling.com%2Fpdf%2FPPP_Release_PA_1020.pdf','PPP+poll')" target="_blank">PPP poll released Oct. 20 shows Onorato down two points to Corbett and that the so-called “enthusiasm gap” has narrowed to five points, meaning Democrats are more likely to come out to vote.

The polling for Callahan, on the other hand, is all over the place. Muhlenberg College