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State program aiming to get women in office

Mike — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Recognizing the political arena presents different challenges for men and women, the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at Chatham University is hosting Ready to Run, a conference geared toward women.

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2011 year in review: Pennsylvania politics brought new governor, criminal convictions

Mike — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:10:06 +0000

In the world of Pennsylvania politics, 2011 will be remembered as a year of mixed accomplishments from a new, Republican-controlled state government and for corruption convictions that extinguished the careers of one-time legislative stars.

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Pennsylvania’s Congressional Map Still In Limbo, GOP Says

TheBibleAnswers — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:39:09 +0000

Top Republicans have been unable to agree on a new map of Pennsylvania’s 18 congressional districts after weeks of private meetings and, with campaign season already under way, they acknowledge they are still working through differences over politics and geography.

Pennsylvania Society attracts power players of Pa. politics, leaves out little guys

RSS Feed — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:26:23 +0000

HARRISBURG — If Pennsylvania politics can be equated to baseball, this weekend is the All-Star Game.

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Western Pennsylvania counties struggle with wildcat sewers

TheBibleAnswers — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +0000

An estimated 27,000 “wildcat” sewers operate in an 11-county area of Southwestern Pennsylvania, mostly in rural and former industrial areas without public sewage systems, according to a report by the Regional Water Management Task Force at the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Politics.

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Nov. 9 Debate: The Losers

RSS Feed — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:45:36 +0000

Although I have been primarily writing individual profiles instead of post-debate analysis for the 2012 Republican candidates, I want to take a quick break to discuss last night’s debate. The big winners of last night’s performance were Newt Ginrich, Herman Cain, and Mitt Romney. Gingrich, because he has consistently demonstrated his stellar debate skills, quick wit, and ability to explain complex policies in a comprehensive manner. He just may be the tortoise of this race. Herman Cain had a good night because it could have gone so badly. He managed to quickly put away the scandalous rumors and stay on message. Also, the crowd was clearly on his side. That is a huge confidence boost for both Herman Cain and his donors. Mitt Romney was a winner because he maintained the even-keeled persona that his campaign is built around. He isn’t the most conservative, the most exciting, or the boldest, but his supporters like that about him. Romney isn’t going to win conservatives this late in the game, all he can do is maintain his base and try to wait out the competition. He had a successful night because his performance was competently vanilla. But the big story of last night’s debate was not the winners, but the two big losers.

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Poll: Can Herman Cain Recover?

RSS Feed — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:53:45 +0000

Since the allegations of sexual harassment have surfaced, many pundits have predicted that this would spell the end for Herman Cain’s bid for President. At this point, his supporters seem to be unphased by the rumors. In fact, most Republicans see this scandal as more proof of the media’s willingness to publish unsubstantiated gossip about conservatives, while they ignore far more credible accusations made about liberals. They don’t seem to think it says much about Herman Cain one way or the other. Still, we have to wonder if he can hold up to this pressure much longer. So, I want to know what you think. Has the scandal hurt him? and if so, Can he recover? View This Poll

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Fantastic New RNC Ad

RSS Feed — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:35:38 +0000

I hope we see more ads like this in the year to come.

Not Like Us

RSS Feed — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:57:24 +0000

When this whole Days of Rage/ Occupy Wall Street/ Occupy Any Random Street movement got started, I didn’t want to write about it. Don’t get me wrong, there is plenty to be said. I just think that it was a mistake, from the beginning, to give this movement so much attention. Yes, I get that there are some very powerful and anti-capitalists behind these demonstrations, but the protesters themselves are not worthy of any coverage. They are aimless and ignorant. They have no concrete goals and their understanding of basic economic and political structures is jaw-droppingly juvenile and ill-informed. On their own, they could no more start true a political revolution than they could sprout wings and fly. In fact, I think that’s why they received such a disproportionate amount of coverage early on. The left-wing of American media recognized that this movement was dead in the water if they didn’t do some serious spin on the matter. And so the press attempted to craft an image of the protests, one that isn’t even remotely similar to the actuality of them, in order to get some momentum behind it.

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Where They Stand: Rick Santorum

RSS Feed — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:57:02 +0000

Rick Santorum is widely considered to be wasting his time at this point. Today, I would like to examine whether or not that is true.

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