In the incumbent’s favor: plenty of campaign cash, exploitable questions about Wolf, the unpopularity of the Democratic president, and the typical demographics of midterm electorates, which skew Republican…
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Republicans Face Down Tea Party Threat With Key Primary Victories
The differences between tea party and non-tea party Republicans are shrinking. Often it’s merely tone and experience that separate them. Tone and experience matter, however, and Tuesday’s GOP voters chose the less bombastic and unpredictable conservatives in most cases.
Wolf, Corbett lock horns in governor’s race
Wolf will accuse Corbett of making hobbling cuts in aid to public schools and of being too cozy with the natural gas industry. Corbett, in turn, is painting Wolf as a tax-and-spend liberal whose policies will threaten the economy…
Penn State stands by NCAA sanctions in court hearing today, citing “finality” on Sandusky case
If the sanctions are voided now, he added, “then we (Penn State) aren’t sure where we are” with regard to further punishment stemming from university officials’ handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The added importance of electing a Democrat as governor
As a result of the gerrymandering that took place after the 2000 census, even though in 2012 the Republican Congressional candidates got fewer votes than Democratic candidates, the GOP captured all but five of the state’s 18 Congressional seats.
Vladimir the Great: The birth of the Putin dictatorship
But in reality dictatorship is the logical culmination of Putinism. The Ukrainian revolution only accelerated Russia’s nosedive into autocracy, but such a step was probably inevitable for the regime to survive.
Is Ukrainian gas Putin’s real target?
Why Slavyansk, a town with population of 129,600, until recently unknown to most of people of the world, unexpectedly became the centre of battles in the eastern Ukraine?
Choice at the polls? Not so much any more: Terry Madonna and Michael L. Young
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Op Ed: …That some 3 million Pennsylvania Republicans have no primary choice this year for governor isn’t the worst of it; electoral choices are disappearing across the American political landscape, from state legislatures to Congress and beyond.
Guv primary took unexpected twist
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Column: …A two-person contest could have been very different, or at least much tighter than polls indicate.
Vote Tuesday . . . or don’t vote Tuesday.
General elections held in even-numbered years in this state always include 18 Congress seats, 203 state House districts and half of the 50 PA Senate Districts are on the ballot. Most have only one candidate or an incumbent versus an underfinanced, underwhelmed challenger.
What a difference a college president can make
‘With what we know statistically about campus rape, there is no way one college had zero reports of on-campus sexual assault for multiple years.’
China evacuates citizens from Vietnam
Outraged by China’s dispatch of an oil-rig to contested waters around the Paracel Islands, Vietnamese mobs descended on Chinese and Taiwan-owned factories in a dramatic escalation of the long simmering diplomatic spat between China and its neighbours over their rival claims in the South China Sea.
Why Nixon’s Drug War remains such a deadly Hoax
Whether he realized it or not, Nixon had pulled a Hitler by using the power of the state to assert a law without any basis in fact. In Hitler’s case, it was his insistence (via the Numemberg laws) that Jewry is an enemy of every state and must be destroyed.
LETTER: The One Percent (who fight our wars)
It’s a long walk to the auditorium down the center corridor of the prison among the inmates. But I can only imagine how tough the walks were for these men when they went “outside the wire” in a foreign land every day for twelve months, not knowing if the loud sound they suddenly heard was a nearby exploding car or a suicide bomber bent on their destruction.