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GOP blasts Justice Baer for Pa. remapping comments. |
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Written by Tom Infield
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Friday, 27 January 2012 10:11 |
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The Pennsylvania Republican Party, in a funk over the state Supreme Court's move to kill a legislative redistricting plan in which the GOP had the lion's share of input, lashed out Thursday at one of the justices, Democrat Max Baer. Baer earlier gave comments partly explaining the move's impact to Capitolwire.com, a subscription news site for political junkies. Michael Barley, executive director of the GOP, accused Baer of violating the Code of Judicial Conduct by commenting to the media on an ongoing court proceeding. Read more: |
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Last Updated on Friday, 27 January 2012 10:13 |
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Written by CHRIS BRENNAN
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:46 |
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With one of the best-known names in Pennsylvania politics, Bob Casey Jr. easily won a seat in the U.S. Senate six years ago during a referendum election on an unpopular Republican president. But a poll to be released Thursday shows that more than half of the registered voters in the state don't know enough about Casey to offer an opinion or are undecided about the Democrat's performance as he seeks a second term. Will President Obama's re-election effort, sure to make many stops in Pennsylvania this year, help or hurt Casey's effort? A new Daily News/Franklin & Marshall College Poll shows Obama easily defeating two potential Republican challengers, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, the man Casey bested by 18 percentage points in 2006. Read more: |
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As parties lose voters, Republicans chip away at Democrats' advantage |
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Written by Scott Kraus
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Friday, 20 January 2012 15:17 |
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As the presidential election looms, Republicans are ever so slowly chipping away at Democrats' sizable voter registration edge in Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley. The 1.2-million-plus statewide voter edge enjoyed by Democrats on Election Day 2008 has been whittled to about 1.1 million in the three years since President Barack Obama took office. The reason: Democrats are shedding voters faster than Republicans. It was enough for the Republican National Committee to tout the gains in an election-year strategy email distributed to the media this week. The memo makes the case that as the presidential campaign begins, the GOP has closed the registration gap in swing states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Iowa. Read more: |
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President Obama has given up on doing his job |
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Written by Reince Priebus
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Monday, 23 January 2012 10:45 |
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The Oval Office must be a quiet place these days. Trying desperately to save his job, Barack Obama has given up on actually doing his job. He’s courting wealthy donors for campaign cash. He’s crisscrossing the country rallying disaffected voters. And he’s running disingenuous ads in five battleground states. He’s out busily trying to secure a second term, while Americans are still waiting for him to deliver on the promises of his first. Yet judging by the president’s schedule, we shouldn’t get our hopes up. Obama is in full-time campaign mode. And it’s only January. This week the president sets off on a three-day campaign jaunt through five different states. Last week he held four Manhattan fundraisers and took a trip to Disney World.
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Written by Opinion
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:06 |
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The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President's hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions. The tragedy is that the economic recovery has been so lackluster because the second impulse keeps winning. Yesterday came proof positive with the White House's repudiation of the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada's $7 billion shovel-ready project that would support tens of thousands of jobs if only it could get the requisite U.S. permits. Those jobs, apparently, can wait. Read more: |
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