LEFTOVERS: Sestak’s hit site, an Onorato video, Callahan raises cash with mayors

Election Day is nearing, and the campaign hit sites are proliferating.

The latest comes from Democrat Joe Sestak’s Senate campaign, which on Monday unveiled pThat includes conservative Rick Santorum’s oft-rehashed quote that Toomey is “too conservative for Pennsylvania,” as well as a playful re-branding of Toomey’s campaign slogan. On Planet Sestak, “More Jobs, Less Government” has been transformed to “More Laissez, Less Fair.”/p
pGet it?/p
pSestak’s campaign has also been banging the Social Security drum this week. He had a conference call Wednesday with some opponents of Toomey’s plan—call it privatization or don’t, whatever you prefer. And Thursday his campaign held a series of rallies across the state. Events hit the ground in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Scranton and Allentown./p
p“Given the fact that Social Security keeps over 700,000 Pennsylvanians out of poverty, this isn’t the kind of program you can just experiment with and hope it turns out alright.” Fulton Thorton, president of the PPL Retirees Lehigh Group said from the Allentown rally. “For many of us gathered here, this is our livelihood. We saw what happened to investments in the stock market over the last few years and we won’t allow Congressman Toomey to subject our benefits to a fickle system that could endanger our financial security. ”/p
pMeanwhile, the folks at Democrat Dan Onorato’s gubernatorial campaign love—just love—putting out Web videos. It seems every time Onorato has a message he wants to hammer home, his travels to various news conferences across the state are quickly accompanied by a Web video./p
pHis campaign’s latest hammers Republican Tom Corbett on the budget increases he’s requested as Attorney General, just as Onorato has been going around the state to argue that Corbett has no credibility to say he’ll slash spending. We saw a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/09/onorato-sees-corbett-hypocrisy-on-spending/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fonorato-sees-corbett-hypocrisy-on-spending%2F','Onorato+in+Philadelphia+Wednesday')" target="_blank">Onorato in Philadelphia Wednesday, and that spending tour continued Thursday in Harrisburg.

You can check out the latest video at bottom.

And finally, some news from the money front. Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan, the Democratic candidate in the 15th Congressional District, is joining a couple of his fellow City CEOs …

September 16, 2010 at 4:23 pm | Comments (0)

Club for Growth: Sestak’s Navy service great, but…

A new TV ad from the conservative Club for Growth takes a moment to acknowledge and laud Democrat Joe Sestak’s 31-year service in the Navy, before quickly pivoting to argue that “his service in Congress is the problem.”

The 30-second spot is the second run against Sestak by the conservative group, which was founded by financial industry interests and until early last year was headed by Sestak’s Republican opponent, Pat Toomey. The Club for Growth …

September 16, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Comments (7)

New Toomey ad keeps up health care attack

The latest TV ad from Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey continues his campaign’s dogged efforts at making sure Democrat Joe Sestak’s support for the recent health care overhaul comes back to bite him in November.

The 30-second spot, which the campaign unveiled Thursday and said would be airing on broadcast networks, features Maria DeMario, a family practice physician in Sestak’s district. DeMario criticizes the health care law, and says she couldn’t get a meeting with …

September 16, 2010 at 6:31 am | Comments (40)

Rasmussen: Toomey up 8

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey continues to lead Pennsylvania’s competitive Senate race, topping Democrat Joe Sestak by eight points, according to a new poll.

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September 15, 2010 at 9:32 am | Comments (11)

LEFTOVERS: Revisiting Toomey’s attack, endorsements, a live TV debate

A day after Republican Senate candidate …

September 14, 2010 at 8:51 pm | Comments (0)

Interesting tid-bit from that Fox poll

Considering that Senate candidates Joe Sestak and Pat Toomey can’t stop arguing about who’s more extreme, we were intrigued by this one data point buried in …

September 14, 2010 at 6:50 pm | Comments (0)

Poll: GOPers still ahead in statewide races

Republicans Pat Toomey and Tom Corbett continue to lead the race for Senate and governor, respectively, but paths to victory remain for the Democratic candidates, according to a new poll.

The Fox News survey released Tuesday showed Toomey leading Democrat Joe Sestak by six points, 47 percent to 41 percent. Seven percent of likely voters remain undecided, and four percent prefer another candidate, according to the poll. Toomey’s relatively modest lead—the margin of error is …

September 14, 2010 at 1:17 pm | Comments (5)

Biden: GOP policy is a ‘Ponzi scheme’

Vice President Joe Biden had harsh words for Republicans Monday night, using a campaign stop in Philadelphia to predict that Democrats would retain control of Congress and that voters would not buy into a GOP economic policy that he called a “Ponzi scheme masquerading as a vision.”

Biden made the comments, …

September 14, 2010 at 9:06 am | Comments (0)

LEFTOVERS: Obama to Philly, ‘extremism’ in the Senate race, debates in the 6th

Those of us who live in Philadelphia could be forgiven for thinking that President Obama is starting to hold the City of Brotherly Love in particularly high esteem.

Obama has made more than a couple trips to Philly recently, and he’s coming again next month. In an announcement that slipped through the proverbial cracks at pa2010.com Central last week, it looks like Obama will headline a Democratic National Committee rally Oct. 10. That’s one of …

September 13, 2010 at 8:47 pm | Comments (2)

Clinton stumps for Onorato, Sestak

Former President Bill Clinton rolled through the Philadelphia area Monday to boost the electoral hopes of gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato and Senate hopeful Joe Sestak.

The pair of morning stops came as Clinton increasingly plays the role of cheerleader-in-chief for the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. At a rally for Onorato in West Philadelphia, Clinton hearkened back the support he received from the City of Brotherly Love.

“If Philadelphia shows up in this …

September 13, 2010 at 4:29 pm | Comments (5)