The Tea Party movement and the future of the GOP

January 14, 2010 at 1:48 pm

Recent polls showing  a hypothetical Tea Party

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Gerlach’s decision and the bigger political picture

January 11, 2010 at 7:15 am

I don’t know Jim Gerlach personally—I must be the only one in Pennsylvania who doesn’t—but a couple of thoughts on his decision last week to quit the race for governor and (very shortly thereafter) jump back into the 6th District contest:

1. I suspect it has at least at much to do with events in Washington as in Harrisburg. Gerlach knew he’d be in underdog against Corbett; nothing new there. By contrast, a House seat…

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Meehan, Hoeffel show advantages of name recognition

January 7, 2010 at 11:30 am

Reports that Pat Meehan 

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More thoughts on that 8-year cycle

January 4, 2010 at 9:30 am

Very interesting

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5 questions for 2010

December 29, 2009 at 6:07 pm

Next year Pennsylvania will choose a new governor, decide whether or not to keep its U.S. Senator and pick all manner of new members of Congress and the General Assembly. So it’s hard to pick out a few special questions that stand out from the rest.

Here’s my attempt:

1. How long will it take Jim Gerlach to start getting nasty—and I mean really nasty—in his gubernatorial primary against Tom Corbett? Gerlach loves a fight,…

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My turn: I’m running for Congress in the 6th

December 17, 2009 at 11:57 am

OK, an odd place to announce it, but since

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Obama and Afghanistan

December 15, 2009 at 2:39 pm

The first question in any war must be the cost in human lives and whether the war is worth it. Still, the political effect of the Afghanistan (Af-Pak) conflict, and President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, cannot be completely ignored. Is Obama straying too far from his base, and will it cost him in future elections?

Yes and no. By sending more troops to Afghanistan, and seeming to adopt the Bush-ean concept of a just…

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Holidays come early for Stensland, Specter and Kanjo

December 10, 2009 at 9:16 pm

You know it’s the holiday season when everyone gets, well, a bit silly. A couple of examples:

Dawn Stensland—Let me get this straight. She pArlen Specter—He’s to the right of Sestak! He’s to the left of Sestak! He’s a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2009/12/specter-leads-sestak-by-13-in-new-poll/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fspecter-leads-sestak-by-13-in-new-poll%2F','up+in+the+polls')" target="_blank"up in the polls/a! He’s a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2009/12/rasmussen-toomey-narrowly-leads-specter-and-sestak/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2009%2F12%2Frasmussen-toomey-narrowly-leads-specter-and-sestak%2F','down+in+the+polls')" target="_blank">down in the polls! Who needs Santa Claus when you still have Arlen?

Paul Kanjorski—Let me get this straight, again. He managed to eke out a narrow win in the 11th over Lou Barletta in the biggest Democratic year since the Flood (Noah, not Johnstown). And he’s telling Barletta

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Meanwhile in New York…

December 8, 2009 at 6:56 pm

In today’s news: Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY), in trouble for avoiding his own taxes, is interested in pushing a

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More on Meehan and Christie

December 7, 2009 at 5:49 pm

Each time that I write about the lack of minorities in the Republican Party, someone points out that I’ve missed something. This time it’s James Kelly, who comments on

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