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By Sean Coit
PoliticsPA
sean@politicspa.com

In a recent post on the former Alaska Governor’s Facebook fan page, Sarah Palin labeled 20 Democrat-held congressional districts for her supporters to target in the 2010 midterm elections.  All 20 districts, including Pennsylvania’s 3rd and 10th (represented by Kathy Dahlkemper and Chris Carney, respectively), were carried by the McCain-Palin ticket in 2008.

Dahlkemper and Carney are both members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democratic caucus, but voted to pass President Obama’s landmark health care reform legislation on Sunday.  Fellow Pa. Blue Dogs Jason Altmire (D-4) and Tim Holden (D-17), the only Pa. Democrats to vote against the bill, were not included on Palin’s target list.

Who will face Dahlkemper and Carney, though, remains unclear.  Erie Republicans haven’t landed a strong candidate to face Dahlkemper in her first re-election campaign, and though former U.S. Attorney Tom  Marino is the front runner to challenger Carney, several other Republicans will battle him in the GOP primary.

Still, in an election cycle that is expected to lean hard right, both seats will be difficult to defend.

“We’re going to reclaim the power of the people from those who disregarded the will of the people,” Palin said in her post.  “Come November, we’re going to print pink slips for members of Congress as fast as they’ve been printing money”

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