Poll Shows Sestak Up By 3 Points…Wait, What?
A single poll is showing Joe Sestak ahead of Pat Toomey. It’s a Hart Research poll (note: sponsored by the DSCC) and in it, he’s up by three points. Yippie! The bad news is that this is an internal Democratic poll conducted by a company and paid for with DSCC money, so no one’s going to start paying attention to it yet, not until an independent...
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Sestak Jumps On ‘U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Writes Checks In Yen’ Bandwagon
There’s this thing called the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (ya heard?). It’s a pro-business lobbying group that’s been in the news lately because in addition to greasing up conservative lawmakers, it’s begun lobbying the public with TV ads and won’t disclose its funding sources. One of its targets: Your Joe Sestak. President and CEO of the Chamber, Tom...
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Specter and Sestak Together For Fundraiser, PA Jewish Community Aid, Earmarks
Seventy people, including NY Senator Chuck(les) Schumer and our own king of the milquetoast, Senator Bob Casey, tip-toed around a downtown lawfirm last night, likely hoping a small, awkward brawl didn’t break out between Rep. Joe Sestak and outgoing Senator Arlen Specter. They were on hand for a fundraiser in support of the admiral. Many short speeches were...
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Protesters Advocate “Green” Agenda At Obama Rally
During yesterday’s rally at Germantown High School President Obama encouraged voters to not be lazy or apathetic about the upcoming midterm elections and to get out and vote. Outside of the rally, protesters were advocating for the legalization of a certain herbal substance that can lead to laziness and apathy: marijuana. The group PhillyNORML (National...
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Obama Rips GOP, Fires Up Crowd At Rally In Germantown
With an approval rating hovering in the high 40s, one might say that it’s been a rough couple of years for President Obama. However, it was like 2008 all over again yesterday in this solidly democratic corner of the state, where Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were greeted with a hero’s welcome at Germantown High School as they fired shots at the...
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Toomey: Wall Street-alize Your Social Security, Or, Go Ahead, Call It Privatization
Over the past two-and-a-half years, it’s been tough to figure out what’s socialism and what’s, um, not. For instance, the $700 billion Wall Street bailout before the election, that was capitalism. But the $75 billion Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan which led Rick Santelli of CNBC to call underwater homeowners “losers” and begin the Tea Party...
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Toomey Gets By With A Little Help From His (Radical) Friends
Pat Toomey’s buddy Jim DeMint (R-SC) had some choice words this past weekend for common social conservative targets. According to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, DeMint was at one of your “Greater Freedom Rallies” at a church in Spartanburg, SC, where he “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds...
Continue ReadingNew Toomey Ad: Republican Doctor All ‘Hell No’ About Sestak’s Healthcare Reform Vote
We like three things: 1) A guitar player who can palm mute from ‘scary’ to ‘hopeful’ within 30 seconds 2) A doctor who claims one candidate has “the best plan for healthcare” before an image of: 3) Said candidate reading what looks like The Bible It’s our lucky election, because Pat Toomey’s latest ad gives us all three. Check it out: Sorta...
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PA Congressman and Iraq War Vet Pat Murphy To Lose Seat?
Remember when the Democratic mantra was all, “We support the troops, just not the war in Iraq”? And in order to prove this brain teaser, they threw money at House races in which Democrat candidates had served overseas in some capacity? Pennsylvania – and Philly’s suburbs – got two of those now-politicians: Congressman Joe Sestak and Congressman Patrick...
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Polls: Sestak’s Not Looking So Hot
This morning, Deniel Denvir asks in his PW column, “Just How Extreme is Pat Toomey?” And while he gets to the heart of the matter, detailing Toomey’s and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s shenanigans, recent polling may answer the original question: Not extreme enough, apparently. In spite of Toomey’s membership in the Club for Growth and his wacky...
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