Obama, Israel, and the Jewish vote

Interesting

June 3, 2009 at 10:48 am | Comments (0)

Pa. GOP will continue fight against voter intimidation

On Election Day 2008, two members of the New Black Panthers Party for Self-Defense engaged in what one former civil rights activist called

June 2, 2009 at 7:34 am | Comments (1)

Leftover QPoll numbers

A few more statistics from yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll, which showed Republican Pat Toomey

May 29, 2009 at 8:59 am | Comments (0)

Sestak says Obama can’t talk him out of a Senate run

If leading Democrats try to push Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) out of his likely primary race against Senator Arlen Specter, they should take note of one thing—

May 28, 2009 at 5:49 pm | Comments (1)

Report: Specter and Obama and DNC fundraiser

Senator Arlen Specter will join President Obama at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser for the first time, Hotline

May 27, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Comments (0)

Gitmo – Obama’s liberalism makes us weaker

President Barack Obama is renewing his call to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but he is not finding too much support out on that ledge. In fact, many in the Democrat Party joined Republicans in rejecting the President’s plan on this issue, because they all came to an obvious conclusion—no one in America wants to have a…

May 21, 2009 at 12:32 pm | Comments (0)

2009 primaries show a post-Obama ballgame

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…

May 21, 2009 at 12:30 pm | Comments (0)

Obama and the 2010 races—Looking ahead

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…

May 18, 2009 at 2:04 pm | Comments (0)

From the grassroots up, calls for a competitive Dem primary threaten to boil over

The dissension among party rank-and-file and liberal activists began almost immediately: Why, people wondered last week, was the Democratic Party settling for a longtime Republican when it could surely do better? That sentiment has only spread in the time since Senator Arlen Specter defected to the Democrats last week.

Now, grassroots demands for a competitive Senate primary are growing louder, and they threaten to embroil Gov. Ed Rendell and the leadership in an intra-party dispute…

May 6, 2009 at 8:50 am | Comments (10)

Sestak seen as most likely to run against Specter in primary

With the Democratic Party seemingly lining up behind Senator Arlen Specter at the state and national levels, Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) has emerged as the most likely candidate to buck party leaders and run against Specter, party insiders and political analysts say.

While Democrats across the state were issuing statements in support of Specter’s decision to full story

April 29, 2009 at 1:47 pm | Comments (22)