Just six months have passed since the last election and 18 months remain until the next one in November 2014. Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak already is planning for the election after that. Sestak, a former House member who lost a...
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Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), standing onstage with his wife Susan and daughter Alex, concedes the Pennsylvania Senate race to Republican Pat Toomey November 3, 2010 at the Radnor Hotel in St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
Sestak Eyes Pennsylvania Comeback — in 2016
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Newly sworn-in Rep. Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, D-Pa. along with her family, take part in the opening session of the 103rd Congress on Capital Hill in Washington on Jan. 5, 1993.
Ex-Rep. Margolies Nears Decision on Pennsylvania Comeback
Former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Marjorie Margolies, who lost her seat in Congress two decades ago after backing a deficit-reduction law, is making preparations for a comeback House campaign as she nears a final decision on the race. “Marjorie 2014“ was organized...
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Rep. Allyson Schwartz in Philadelphia.
Why Republicans OK Conceding Schwartz’s Pennsylvania District
Republicans don’t have much of a chance at winning the Philadelphia-area congressional district that Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz plans to give up to run for governor next year. And that’s just fine by Republicans. That’s because Republicans who redrew district...
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Haley Barbour
Barbour: Dividing Electoral Votes Wrong
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour is not a supporter of Republican proposals to allocate electoral votes in some states by congressional district rather than winner-take-all. “I don’t think it’s a good idea,” he says in an interview on...
Read more »Obama’s Spending: Battleground States, Staff Bonuses
Newly filed spending reports show President Barack Obama’s campaign committee transferred almost $2 million in the final days of his re-election campaign to three key states: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Money well spent, as he carried the trio en route to racking...
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President Barack Obama looks at a K'nex roller coaster at a Rodon Group manufacturing facility on Nov. 30, 2012 in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Tinker Toy Maker: `Fiscal Cliff’ a `Red, White and Blue Issue’
The folks who make Tinker Toys say this is no time to be tinkering with public confidence in the economy. Michael Araten is president and CEO of K’NEX, the toy company in Pennsylvania that President Barack Obama visited today to...
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands at the end of the third and final presidential debate on Oct. 22, 2012 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.
Obama-Romney Salute One Another
On the final day, both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney have commended each other for a campaign well run. Romney offered some rare words of praise for his opponent today, during a stop at a campaign office in...
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Voting Machine Switches Obama Vote to Romney in Pennsylvania
A voting machine in Pennsylvania allegedly wants Mitt Romney for president. The electronic voting machine was pulled from service after a voter recorded the machine changing a vote for President Barack Obama to a vote for Romney. The voter posted...
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Mitt Romney is seen reflected in a teleprompter as he speaks during a campaign rally at the Smithfield Foods Hangar on Nov. 4, 2012.
Pro-Romney `Gut’ Call: Pennsylvania
Brian Gardner, Washington research chief for investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, predicts Mitt Romney will be elected president even though he will lose Ohio, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to fail in the Buckeye State but win the...
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Voters walk past supporters holding signs on their way to casting ballots at Northwest Elementary School on Nov. 6, 2012 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Who’s Who of Republican Groups Airs Pennsylvania Ads — 2/3 Romney
Mitt Romney and 10 0allied groups ran television ads in Pennsylvania in the past week, a last-ditch effort to shift the Democratic-leaning state’s 20 electoral votes to the Republican column in today’s election. The pro-Romney side supplied 5,115 of the...
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