Pennsylvania

No More Spin: Clinton, Pennsylvania And The Party

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The results of Pennsylvania's primary should be evaluated with the best interests of the party in mind. Let's determine if Clinton should stay in the race and tell the spinmeisters to take a hike.

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In PA: It's Poll Numbers Versus The Crowds

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home

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Kelly Nuxoll

In PA, Clinton invokes an embattled country and promotes a transactional social contract, where hard work will be rewarded. Obama affirms people's experience and asks that we work together.

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White Men

Nora Ephron | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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Nora Ephron

This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don't mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this?

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Latest Gallup National Democratic Tracking Poll: Obama-Clinton Now in Dead Heat -- Will the Pundits and Media Analyze Why?

Lanny Davis | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

If Obama loses Pennsylvania and his demographic base is the same -- blacks, upper class liberal professionals, and college students -- then the issue of electability should be even more of concern for Democrats.

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Open Letter To PA Democrats: Vote For The Party And The Nation

Tom Douglas | Posted 04.20.2008 | Home

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Tom Douglas

I know Pennsylvanians and they don't tolerate B.S. It's time for Hillary to quit, before she fracks things up for all of us. PA voters should send her a clear signal with a resounding defeat tomorrow.

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On the Road: Pittsburgh Steelworkers On Strike

Laura J. Mansfield | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home

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Laura J. Mansfield

In Pittsburgh, Steelworkers Local 5032 has been on strike for seven weeks. They want a pension plan and health care and fair trade. The economy worked better, they say, under Bill Clinton.

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Our "Working Class" Press

Peter Smith | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

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Peter Smith

A lot of inside the beltway talking heads have claimed a special understanding of working class voters lately. I would submit that if, as a journalist, you have to explain your working class bona fides, then you probably don't have them.

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Far More Than "Bitter": Message from a Small Town Pennsylvanian

Marylee Smithwick | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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Marylee Smithwick

"Bitter" is a good word, to describe some of what I feel -- but "mad as hell" are a few better words. And I have a son that is on his way to Iraq for his third or forth tour, so I am not only mad but scared.

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Newsflash: Populism Is Popular

David Sirota | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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David Sirota

Cross-posted from CAF Whenever pundits and political elites express surprise at the power of populism, I always think back to the tongue-in-cheek hea...

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Bittergate's Wobbly Legs: Signs of Media Evolution?

John K. Wilson | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home

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John K. Wilson

Obama's bounce in the polls this week is more than a mere candidate "surge." It's a repudiation of the nattering nabob media which imagined clumsy wording could send his campaign into a glorious tailspin.

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Reading The Pictures: And, If You Happened To Have Missed Any Part Of Last Night's Clinton-Obama Pennsylvania Debate

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

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Me and Barack: Michelle Obama Talks To Pennsylvanians

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

Michelle Obama's stump speeches address the charge of her husband's perceived elitism. She drills deep to find ways to reach people, so that the very act of connection subverts the criticism.

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What Would Huckabee Do?

Stephen Dinan | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Stephen Dinan

With Huckabee's pastor background and his ability to deliver the devastating one-liner, you have to imagine Obama would be sweating right now if he were facing the former Arkansas governor.

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Keystone Concerns on China, Key to the Election?

Scott Paul | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Scott Paul

China's unfair trade practices -- and our unwillingness to hold them accountable -- have had a devastating impact on American workers and manufacturers. In Pennsylvania, this issue is critical.

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No More Debate: Why Clinton Must Bow Out

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The debate's over. Let's stop pretending. The data demonstrates Obama has always been more electable; that Clinton still isn't electable; and that Clinton is weakening Obama for the general.

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Hunters and Shooters Support Obama: He "Gets It"

Ray Schoenke | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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Ray Schoenke

As president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), today I announced our endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president.

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Between the Ds, it's Obama!

Michael Smerconish | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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Michael Smerconish

I'm still a Republican, and while I won't have a vote in the battle between Obama and Hillary, if I could pull a lever on Tuesday, I would vote for Obama, for 7,000 reasons.

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Dissing God

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home

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Allison Kilkenny

Outside his audacity of hope, it could be Barack Obama's audacious scrutiny of religion that becomes his undoing. Did I mention it's 2008? And yet ...

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OffTheBus On Bittergate: A Roundup of Initial Responses

John Tomasic | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home

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John Tomasic

The Bittergate story has prompted responses from many OffTheBus contributors. They've written on the story and its interpretations but also on the new experience of practicing citizen journalism.

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The Alabama of Pennsylvania Mirrors New Hampshire

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home

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Jennifer Donahue

It's anybody's guess how the state will shake out a week from today. But listening to voters in Pennsylvania, I'd guess it won't turn on the word "bitter," "gun" or "God."

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Got Bitter?

Lucy Carrigan | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

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Lucy Carrigan

Obama merely described a portion of the population that is wooed and wed every single election cycle only to be divorced almost as soon as the voting booths have closed.

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Clinton's Pennsylvania Lead: Is It Really 20 Points?

Wall Street Journal | Carl Bialik | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

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A new survey showing Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama by 20 percentage points in Pennsylvania comes from a polling firm with a shaky tra...

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Clinton Downs A Beer And A Bump To Impress The Cool Kids, And This Dad's Not OK With That

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Clinton is not a bump-and-a-brew kind of gal. She's just not. But she is a political animal, so she downed a boilermaker at a place called Bronko's in IN to gain popularity with people with whom she has nothing in common.

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Obama Jerks The White Man's Burden

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home

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Leonce Gaiter

Somewhere amid all these fireworks, we have the classic "uppity negro" archetype-- a black man who doesn't know his place, who dares to pontificate on the pathologies of white men.

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Who's Really Out of Touch Here?

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

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Harold Pollack

Unlike Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Barack Obama is a man who came out of nowhere, from very modest means, to challenge for our nation's highest office. Out of touch? Out of touch?

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