Is Senator Toomey keeping campaign promises?

Nearly every newly minted U.S. senator promises some variation of “I’m going to hit the ground running.” It sounds good to their supporters flush with victory. More often than not, new senators spend a few months if not a full year getting their bearings, often being tapped to preside over the Senate in order to get a grasp of the often Byzantine rules of the chamber. Indeed, few freshmen senators get much national media exposure…

March 29, 2011 at 5:18 pm | Comments (5)

Toomey Didn’t Beat Sestak — Democrats Did

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November 10, 2010 at 11:37 am | Comments (36)

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h6If you look at the data you will see that the GOP has a sizeable lead in all aspects of Social Media (2 years ago it was the opposite!) BUT, if you add Barack Obama’s Social Network Eco-system, the numbers are more even. What does this imply or say about the war going on in Social Networking? who’s on top and how is it integrating with campaigns in 2010? 2012?/h6
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pFLOTUS apparently travels with a fashionbr /
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pUpdate: 3:14/p
pMedia Watching: Sestak leads Toomey by +4 since 8am. Data is defined by combining and weighing blog, web, & other internet posts. a title="#paelect" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23paelect" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://twitter.com']);"#paelect/a We’ve been watching our alerts and research for 2 weeks steady. Up until today, the media listening stream has favored Pat Toomey (R)./p
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pI need to respond to Ben Smith’s story on Politico yesterday. He has abr /
picture of one campaign brochure that features Joe Sestak lessbr /
prominently than Dan Onorato. From this one campaign leaflet, he jumpsbr /
to the erroneous conclusion that Sestak is not loved by the Democraticbr /
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As someone who has stopped by almost daily the Philadelphia office ofbr /
Organizing for America, Obama’s get the vote operation, I can tell youbr /
that the Democratic Party is working v just as hard to elect Sestak tobr /
the Senate as they are to elect Onorato as Governor. Every one of thebr /
thousands phone calls made there every day mentions both candidates.br /
In addition, I have seen all types of configurations on the campaignbr /
literature and some favor Sestak. Each is designed with a targetbr /
audience in mind./p
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pUpdate: 1:13 pm/p
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November 2, 2010 at 1:33 pm | Comments (18)

Who’s “Qualified” to be a Politician?

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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…

October 27, 2010 at 10:29 am | Comments (11)

Palin, Giuliani endorse Toomey… or did they?

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey picked up a pair of major endorsements recently, though he seems much more enthusiastic about one than the other.

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October 24, 2010 at 11:38 pm | Comments (73)

Months after defeat, Specter stumping for Sestak

Almost five months after he was dispatched in the May primary, Senator Arlen Specter will be campaigning in earnest for the man who sent him packing.

Specter will be joining Senators Bob Casey and Chuck Schumer and a reception for Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak Monday in the Philadelphia. It will mark one of the only times since their bitter primary that Specter has stumped for Sestak—Specter brought him to a lunch of Senate Democrats…

October 7, 2010 at 10:00 am | Comments (66)

LEFTOVERS: A guv debate, more Senate ads, a Callahan spot, cops for Fitz

Looks like we’ll actually be getting two more gubernatorial debates before Election Day.

One more has been added to the schedule, and this one is set to go down Oct. 18. It’ll be aired on the local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, giving Republican Tom Corbett and Democrat Dan Onorato what could potentially be their biggest debate audience of the campaign.

That debate will come just two days after the candidates have their second debate, a…

October 6, 2010 at 5:07 pm | Comments (3)

EXCLUSIVE: New Sestak ad plays the Santorum, Palin cards

Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak is up with a new TV ad that seeks to remind voters of Republican rival Pat Toomey’s affinity for Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin.

The 30-second spot, which was not released by the campaign but was airing Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in the Philadelphia media market, refers to Toomey as “Pennsylvania’s most right-wing congressman”—a reference to an American Conservative Union rating that has put him to the right of…

October 6, 2010 at 12:10 pm | Comments (47)

Muhlenberg: Corbett up 11, Toomey up 7

Republicans continue to hold healthy leads in Pennsylvania’s statewide races just a month before Election Day, according to a new poll.

The Muhlenberg College/Morning Call survey released Wednesday showed Republican Tom Corbett holding a 11-point lead over Democrat Dan Onorato in the race for governor, 47 percent to 36 percent. Twelve percent of likely voters are still undecided, and Corbett’s edge is one point smaller when those undecided voters are pressed to say which candidate…

October 6, 2010 at 10:46 am | Comments (1)

Toomey says he raised $3.8M

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey said Tuesday that he raised $3.8 million during the third quarter of the year, besting his Democratic opponent’s haul by more than half-a-million bucks.

Toomey’s campaign disclosed its fundraising haul about an hour after Democrat Joe Sestak’s campaign said it raised $3.2 million during the period. Toomey has been a potent fundraiser, and his best quarter to date brought the campaign to more than $14 million raised since he started…

October 5, 2010 at 4:43 pm | Comments (10)