The media is off to the races about Tom Ridge going up vs. Arlen Specter, but how the heck can someone like Ridge, with a quasi-sensible position on abortion, even make it through the GOP primary? The right is mainlining crazy even more than usual right now and is not going to bite its tongue [...]
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Pat Toomey & The Brilliance Of The Modern GOP
May 4th, 2009
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Toomey insists that he can win Pennsylvania. Why? Because Ronald Reagan won there twice so surely nothing has changed.
Pennsylvania
2008
Obama 54%
McCain 44%
2004
Kerry 50%
Bush 48%
2000
Gore 50%
Bush 46%
1996
Clinton 49%
Dole 39%
1992
Clinton 45%
Bush 36%
1988
Bush 50%
Dukakis 48%
2 Democratic Senators From PA?
March 2nd, 2009
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Pat Toomey is thinking of challenging Arlen Specter again. There might be enough conservative base rage to get it done, but a moderate-seeming incumbent like Specter is the GOP’s best chance to hold on to that seat, so… go Toomey!
