Pat Toomey, the conservative Republican senate candidate in Pennsylvania, has written an op-ed saying he would vote for Sonia Sotomayor. What does this tell us? Probably that since he’s got the GOP nomination locked up Toomey is moving to look more like a moderate, and figures the few people he upsets in wingnuttia is offset [...]
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Today In Mythical Senate Races
May 4th, 2009
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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 [...]
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%
