pennsylvania

Democratic leaders will continue to support the 2010 reelection of Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), Congress’ newest Democrat, despite yesterday’s news that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is planning a primary challenge, The Plum Line reported this afternoon. Here’s the statement from Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), via Greg Sargent:
Like President Obama [...]

Following the report that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) intends to wage a primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), here’s the statement from Pat Toomey, the conservative former Club for Growth president who pushed Specter from the Republican Party to begin with.
While Joe Sestak and I disagree on a host of issues, I commend him [...]

Following up on Kathleen’s post, second-term Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) is soon to launch a primary run against the Senate’s newest Democrat, Arlen Specter, TPMDC reported today:
“He intends to get in the race,” says Meg Infantino, the Congressman’s sister, who works at Sestak for Congress. “In the not too distant future, he will sit down [...]

When Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) switched parties, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told me that it could have been worse; Specter was still blocking the Senate from a vote on the Employee Free Choice Act. Today Specter is hinting that he might support a compromise, and the Toomey campaign is firing back through [...]

Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) endorses GOP Senate candidate Pat Toomey, staying on message:
Pat is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party for the United States Senate… He is the front runner, and I believe he’s going to be well-positioned and prepared to face whoever the Democrats nominate. I’m supporting him because I think he’s a [...]

Josh Kraushaar reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will go back on its word from last week and endorse Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) when he announces his bid for the U.S. Senate. It’s one of several Senate races where the party has drafted or is trying to draft a moderate Republican to shove aside [...]

Republicans are groaning over this announcement today from former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge:
After careful consideration and many conversations with friends and family and the leadership of my party, I have decided not to seek the Republican nomination for Senate.
That dials the calculation in Pennsylvania back to what it was a week ago — Republicans are [...]

As buzz builds about a possible Pennsylvania Senate run by former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.), the foreign agents filings for Ridge Global LLC, reveal that he doesn’t live in his old state. According to his filing from June 12, 2008, Ridge’s residence is on Woodlawn Ave in Chevy Chase, Md., the tiny Montgomery County suburb [...]

The campaign of Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Pat Toomey just announced that it “raised over half a million dollars from over four thousand contributors” since the candidate entered the race on April 15. A hard number would be more interesting, but the campaign is backing up what a campaign worker told me (anonymously, for some [...]

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey, explaining how he can defeat Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.):
Reagan carried this state twice. I don’t think this state has changed.
Is there any state, or county, or freshwater lake that hasn’t changed since November 1984? This is campaign spin that has the unintended effect of making Toomey sound like he doesn’t [...]