Dr. Sharon Brown will take on the Republican nominee for the seat of ex-Senator Jane Orie, a Democratic source confirms. She’s an epidemiologist from Wexford who challenged Mike Turzai in 2010. She’ll likely face former U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart.
With surrogates like these, who needs enemies? Ed Rendell hasn’t backed down on his off-message comments about President Obama despite backlash from fellow Democrats. On Thursday, he implied Obama lacked executive experience and that Hillary Clinton would’ve served more effectively as president.
The Obama campaign shifts its fire from Mitt Romney to Congress in its newest television ad in Pennsylvania. The new spot, “Jobs,” follows the disappointing release of last month’s jobs report.
Matt Cartwright has a message for Congress: cut the partisanship and pass the transportation bill. The Lackawanna County attorney who knocked off Rep. Tim Holden cites May’s lackluster jobs report and says the bill means jobs.
Good morning, politicos, here’s the buzz. There was a flurry of politics yesterday, and this morning we have more about those F&M poll results, details on Michelle Obama’s visit to Philly, and FreedomWorks backing Tom Smith.
Although Pennsylvania was a big victory for Obama in 2008, Romney is still hoping to win the Keystone State this time around, and so the more popular Obama, First Lady Michelle, spoke at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Tuesday.
Quick follow-up on PoliticsPA’s Monday report about the large discrepancies in internal polling between Rep. Jim Gerlach and his opponent Manan Trivedi in PA-6. Trivedi’s campaign has fired back since our first report, questioning the reliability of Gerlach’s polling numbers.
Conservative PAC FreedomWorks is launching an intensive ad campaign costing between $500,000 and $1 million and aimed to “pressure state lawmakers…to pass a school choice bill” this June, and also endorsing Sen. Bob Casey’s opponent, Tea Party-backed Tom Smith.
The height of election season is approaching, and pollsters are turning up the heat as it approaches. A new Franklin & Marshall College Opinion Research poll shows people warming up to the idea of same-sex marriages, and giving their opinions on the budget, their finances and Gov. Tom Corbett.
The Democrat-backed Paycheck Fairness Act fell short of cloture Tuesday, with Dems saying Romney and the right have failed women and Republicans calling the act a political stunt. Sens. Casey and Toomey split on the measure and it’s already become a campaign issue.
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