More on Sestak and Sotomayor

May 27, 2009 at 6:56 pm

As predicted

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Specter and Sotomayor

May 27, 2009 at 7:33 am

Interesting to see his response. I suspect he will ask all sorts of seemingly tough questions to demonstrate that he’s still a player, but hard to see him opposing her. He is too new as a Democrat and has already annoyed too many people on peripheral issues. Maybe he’ll go after anyone who questions her—a sort of Anita Hill in reverse, although one doubts that similar issues will arise.

Perhaps more interesting is the response…

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2009 primaries show a post-Obama ballgame

May 21, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Most of this Web site is, quite understandably, devoted to statewide or at least district-wide issues. Sometimes, though, things happen in a local election that have broader implications.

One such event happened yesterday in Cheltenham Township, when the two Cheltenham for Change candidates, Art Haywood and Kathy Hampton, defeated incumbent commissioners Paul Greenwald and Jeffrey Muldawer in the Democratic primary. Haywood and Hampton campaigned as a team: both are African-American (there has never been a…

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Thoughts for primary night

May 19, 2009 at 8:27 pm

Still in NY and likely to be for some time. We’ll know soon how well the GOP has overcome ballot position to nominate its chosen judicial candidates. And, of course, how many people bother to turn out, now that more and more Republicans have become Independents… or worse.

No surprise that Gov. Rendell

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Obama and the 2010 races—Looking ahead

May 18, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Still busy with family matters, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about Obama’s 100+ days and their implications for the 2010 elections.

Lawyers like to divide things between form and substance, or what others might prefer to call style and content. In style (form) Obama is a clear hit. There’s no question he’s dominating the news, and that Republicans—like the Democrats with Reagan—haven’t figured out how to respond.

In content (substance) I…

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The sincerest form of flattery…

May 15, 2009 at 10:25 am

A family illness will slow the blogging. I did have time to note that a couple more Republicans lined up behind Toomey and one more Democrat dropped out against Specter. It sounds like the GOP is pretty determined to lose this race. But you never know.

By the way, did anyone notice Toomey’s

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It takes two to be civil

May 14, 2009 at 9:12 am

Nice

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Here comes the judge

May 13, 2009 at 6:51 am

Among the joys of driving through Pennsylvania in an odd-numbered year are the signs for judicial elections that line the highways—many illegally placed, but if you win the election, presumably you don’t have to worry. Although almost every expert agrees electing judges is a bad idea, one has to concede that it is highly entertaining.

Judicial elections are the closest thing we have to pure politics: There are virtually no issues and the signs rarely…

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The Gleason and Gerlach show

May 12, 2009 at 8:55 am

Pa2010.com reported yesterday that state GOP Chair Rob Gleason gets “

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An open house and an open party?

May 11, 2009 at 9:00 am

Friday afternoon I stopped by the open house at the new Montgomery County Republican Committee offices in Norristown. I lasted about an hour, rather above average for me at a political event, and came home with a nice stash of old campaign buttons. During that time I saw a great deal of what’s right about the suburban GOP—and a lot of what isn’t.

The offices are bright and spacious, and the…

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