Pennsylvania

Nancy Martino

Volunteer Executive Director
pennsylvania@republican-leadership.com
 
 

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The Elephant in the Room: 'Hardball' host may not be Specter's chief worry

Will MSNBC's Chris Matthews return to his boyhood home of Montgomery County to play real hardball against five-term Sen. Arlen Specter? That question is all the buzz in Pennsylvania political circles - once again.

I remember talking with Matthews about the same topic six years ago. We were in the makeup room before a segment of his show, Hardball, at American University.

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Pa. Senate last GOP holdout

MARC LEVY Associated Press Writer

HARRISBURG — Republicans have controlled the Pennsylvania Senate for most of the last three decades, and now they have new bragging rights: The Senate is the last state legislative chamber in the Northeast in GOP hands.

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Head Strong: Ignoring suburbs doomed the GOP

To win Pa., it must appeal to moderates.

By Michael Smerconish - Inquirer
Inquirer Currents Columnist

If retail politicking alone determined the election outcome in Pennsylvania, McCain-Palin would have won in a landslide. Speaking on MSNBC election night, Gov. Rendell joked that the GOP ticket had spent so much time in the state that he was thinking of assessing them with a state income tax.

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How Will Obama Affect Us?

by The Patriot-News
Saturday November 08, 2008, 11:59 PM

Barack Obama won the Keystone State on his way to the White House. We'll see if his victory is a win for Pennsylvania.

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Phila. area the key to Obama's win in Pa.

Posted on Thu, Nov. 6, 2008
By Tom Infield
Inquirer Staff Writer
 
No offense to anyone in the rest of Pennsylvania, but it was always about Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Sen. John McCain knew it. That was why he and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, popped up in Wallingford and Media and Lafayette Hill and Pipersville and Villanova - and on and on.

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Pa. tilting Democratic, but still a swing state

11/5/2008, 4:03 p.m. EST
By PETER JACKSON
The Associated Press        

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Is Pennsylvania still a swing state?

When the state went for Barack Obama on Tuesday, playing a key role in Obama's stunning victory, it made him the fifth Democrat in a row to carry Pennsylvania in a presidential election.

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As Dems Party, GOP Mulls Future

BARACK OBAMA threw a wild party last night and the Republicans woke up this morning with a vicious hangover and concerns about their bedmates.

Economic conservatives and culture warriors, two GOP factions long in an uneasy alliance, now must decide to part ways or push forward as a political minority in search of redemption.

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McCain Camp Finds Some Hope in Philadelphia

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

PHILADELPHIA — If Senator John McCain defies the polls and wins Pennsylvania, it will be in part because of voters like Harry Klemash, 67, a Democrat who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primary but is still not comfortable with Senator Barack Obama.

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Is Pennsylvania McCain’s last stand?

BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK
STAFF WRITER
Published: Sunday, November 02, 2008
Updated: Sunday, November 2, 2008 9:38 AM EST

For more than two weeks, John McCain, Sarah Palin and a variety of their campaign surrogates have devoted much of their attention and limited resources toward turning the Keystone State red for the first time since 1988.

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