Oct
28
2010
WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell isn’t running for the Senate in Pennsylvania, but you might get the idea that she is. She’s on the local news around here, she’s in radio and TV ads, and she’s part of Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak’s stump speech in his Senate campaign against Republican Pat Toomey. [...]
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Oct
27
2010
Our latest roundup of polls on key governor and Senate races includes Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Like Ohio, Pennsylvania could be one of those states where Republicans could walk away with both the governor and Senate seats. In Ohio, the Senate race looks out [...]
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Oct
24
2010
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. — Lou Barletta listened politely as the town hall meeting kept veering back to his signature issue, the one he really would rather not talk about in the closing days of his congressional campaign: illegal immigration. What is your position on securing the border, asked one voter. For it, of course. [...]
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Oct
23
2010
FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. — The fighting Irishmen of Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district pulled no punches in the final two debates of a bellwether race that will tell just how the beleaguered Democrats will fare on Nov. 2. Rep. Patrick Murphy, the incumbent Democrat, pummeled his opponent as “the tax cut fairy” because he wants to [...]
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Oct
22
2010
A Public Policy Polling survey released Thursday showed that Democrat Dan Onorato, who had been trailing Republican Tom Corbett in just about every poll in the Pennsylvania governor’s race, had closed the gap. Now, a Quinnipiac University poll is saying the same thing. Corbett’s lead over Onorato now stands at 49 percent to 44 percent [...]
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Oct
21
2010
Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey accused each other of being “extreme” and outside the mainstream in the first debate of a Pennsylvania Senate race that’s suddenly turned into a dead heat. Sestak lumped Toomey with Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell and George W. Bush. But Toomey went the whole hour without mentioning House Speaker [...]
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