During the 2010 U.S Senate primary election, Republican nominee Joe Miller, stunned the Republican establishment with his long-shot primary victory over incumbent, Lisa Murkowski. Current Senate candidate Marc Scaringi is hoping Miller’s endorsement will help him to capture that same “magic.”

If you’ve been to a local Republican picnic this summer, you might have heard one of the newest names in the GOP race to unseat Senator Bob Casey in 2012. Army vet John Vernon is giving it a go.

Marc Scaringi is going to have a press conference and lunch event with Joe Miller who ran for the Senate in 2010 from the state of Alaska.

It was a tough week for Harrisburg City Council, a tough anniversary for Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and an up-and-down couple days for Senator Toomey. See why in this week’s edition of Up & Down.

The results of the Franklin & Marshall poll are negative all-around. The approval ratings for top elected officials are low and more than half of the state thinks Pennsylvania is heading in the wrong direction.

53 percent of Pennsylvania adults believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, and just one-third of voters rate the job performance of President Obama or any given one of the state’s top elected officials as “excellent” or “good.”

Last year, Fitzgerald served as co-campaign manager and communications director for Tom Marino’s upset victory over incumbent Democratic Congressman Chris Carney in the 10th congressional district.

Casey is on his third trip to Pakistan, aiming to stop the transportation of substances used to make IEDs, the number one killer of U.S troops, into neighboring Afghanistan.

J Street, a political group for “pro-Israeli and pro-peace Americans,” delivered about a thousand signed postcards this week to Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey as part of their effort to lobby elected officials to support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Tom Smith added a big name to his nascent bid for U.S. Senate today. Mark Harris, manager of Pat Toomey’s successful effort in 2010, will serve as general consultant for Smith’s campaign to take on Senator Bob Casey.