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Pennsylvania stories: 119 news summaries

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 GOP Email 
 Compares 
 Obama 
 to Nazis 


Message to 75,000 Jews unauthorized, Pa. party says

Oct 28, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Pennsylvania GOP has disavowed an email that went out last week to 75,000 Jewish voters comparing a vote for Barack Obama to support for the Third Reich. The message, sent out by a consultant charged with securing the Jewish vote, warns that "Jewish Americans cannot afford to... More »

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Holocaust • GOP • Pennsylvania • Republican Party • Obama 2008 • attack ad • the Jewish vote • Election 2008

ANALYSIS

John McCain, Here's How You Can Still Win This Election

Forget about Pa.; focus on Virginia, Florida, FiveThirtyEight says

Oct 26, 08 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain, the polls aren’t looking good and your running mate is being accused of going “rogue,” but Nate Silver has some advice on how you can still eke out a victory. “No razzle-dazzle here,” Silver writes for FiveThirtyEight, “McCain simply has to pick... More »

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Florida • John McCain • Iowa • Wisconsin • electoral college • New Hampshire • New Mexico • Ohio • North Carolina • Pennsylvania • Indiana • Virginia • Minnesota • Missouri • Colorado • Nate Silver

 McCain Bets the Farm on Pa. 

GOP battles Dems' big advantage in polls, registration

Oct 21, 08 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is going full throttle in Pennsylvania, but his work is cut out for him: He’s behind 12-15 points in state polls, and Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans in the state, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. McCain, wife Cindy, and Sarah Palin have stumped heavily there all week. “We... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Pennsylvania • campaign stops • Keystone State • Election 2008 • campaign tactics

 Murtha 
 Backtracks on 
 Pa. Racism Jab 

Democratic Rep. apologizes for dissing state's west

Oct 16, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. John Murtha apologized for saying yesterday that “racist” western Pennsylvanians wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama, CNN reports. “While we cannot deny that race is a factor in this election, I believe we've been able to look beyond race these past few months,” the Democrat said... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • race • John Murtha • Pennsylvania • Obama 2008 • Election 2008

(Newser) - Cops didn't have to go far to find a Pennsylvania couple having sex in a car after some weekend revelry, the Morning Call of Allentown reports. In their haste, the pair had parked in a police station lot. Both said they were drinking at a college party and did... More »

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police • Pennsylvania • drunk driving • couples • public sex

ANALYSIS

Debate Boosts Obama in Swing States: Poll

'The Wall Street meltdown has been a dagger to McCain's political heart'

Oct 1, 08 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s debate performance won over many voters in the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac polls found. A margin of 13% to 17% of voters in each state said Obama did a better job in the debate, and many have shifted their support. Over the... More »

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Florida • Ohio • Pennsylvania • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • poll numbers • swing states

ANALYSIS

 'R' Word in Play 
 in Pa.—and It's 
 Not 'Recession'  

White voters won't always say it, but they won't vote Obama

Sep 22, 08 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden must have been shocked when he met Carolyn Bauer in a Philadelphia diner. Bauer told Biden she’d never vote for his running mate. “It’d be disgusting to get a man named Barack Obama as president,” she said. “No way!” Racism is a... More »

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Barack Obama • Pennsylvania • race relations • Philadelphia • racism • Election 2008

Barr, Nader Each on 40+ States' Nov. Ballots

Best-known third-party candidates get 3.3% in polls, but experts say that may ebb

Sep 19, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Voters in most states in the US will see Ralph Nader and Bob Barr on the presidential ballot, Politico reports. Nader made it in 45 states and the District of Columbia, though the independent missed Texas. Barr’s Libertarian bid made the ballot in 44 states. The two combined for... More »

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Pennsylvania • Massachusetts • Ralph Nader • third party candidacy • Election 2008 • Independent Party • Bob Barr • opinion polls • pollsters

Palin Pick
Takes Battle to New States

GOP to capitalize on revived base in
Ohio, Penn.

Sep 6, 08 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's camp is pushing some states back into play in the presidential election, convinced that Sarah Palin has re-energized GOP voters, the New York Times reports. McCain believes Palin improves his chances in Ohio and Pennsylvania, states Barack Obama is counting on. And with just 8 weeks left,... More »

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John McCain • Ohio • Pennsylvania • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • conservative base • Sarah Palin • battleground states

 Cops Tase, Kill Renegade Emu 

Bird dies after state troopers are forced to tase it

Sep 3, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Emu ran wild on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for two hours Monday and died after state troopers used a taser on it, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. Motorists said the bird ran up and down the shoulder of the road until getting stuck in traffic lanes with high barriers on either... More »

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birds • Pennsylvania • state police • animal attack • emu • escape • Taser • Pittsburgh • animal • exotic animals

States Consider Leasing Roads as Upkeep Takes Toll

$12.8B deal could make Penn. Turnpike largest such public-private partnership

Aug 26, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Pennsylvania legislators set to vote next month on a $12.8 billion deal that would put the 537-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike under private operation, such public-private partnerships are accelerating across the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. Often bankrolled by infrastructure funds—which have $160 billion under management—the projects... More »

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transit • Pennsylvania • road budget • Gov. Ed Rendell • highways • Indiana Toll Road • Department of Transportation

 Amish Population Booming

Reclusive sect expanding into 28 states

Aug 21, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The booming Amish population has expanded far beyond its Pennsylvania Dutch country roots, drawn to new communities in a quest for cheap farmland, reports the AP. With more than 80% of its youth deciding to remain in the church, its numbers have soared from 123,000 in 1992 to 227,... More »

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Pennsylvania • population • farmland • Amish

Gun-Toting Granny Foils Would-Be Thief

Pa. octogenarian keeps the heat on burglar until police show up

Aug 19, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - An 85-year-old Pennsylvania woman foiled a thief by pointing her .22-caliber revolver at him and holding him at bay until police arrived, the Uniontown Herald-Standard reports. A 17-year-old broke into Leda Smith's home Sunday afternoon, but before the intruder could steal anything, the great-grandmother retrieved her gun, forced the burglar... More »

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crime • robbery • thief • Pennsylvania • guns • Leda Smith

McCain, VP Hopeful Ridge Campaign in Pa.

Indepedent/Dem mayor expected to endorse Mac today

Aug 11, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican vice presidential hopeful Tom Ridge is campaigning with John McCain in Pennsylvania today, CNN reports. McCain and ex-Pennsylvania governor Ridge started the day meeting with employees at a GE plant. Asked what he would do on first taking office, McCain replied, “Call Tom Ridge to Washington from whatever... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Republican • GOP • Pennsylvania • vice president • vice presidential candidate • Tom Ridge

Boscov's Files for Chapter 11

Reading, Pa.-based department store
chain to shutter
10 of 49 locations

Aug 4, 08 2:18 PM CDT
(AP) - The troubled department store chain Boscov's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, becoming the latest victim of the harsh consumer spending environment. The Reading, Pa.-based chain said it will close 10 of its 49 stores, citing sluggish consumer spending and credit issues—and acknowledging that some of its... More »

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bankruptcy • Pennsylvania • department stores • Chapter 11 • Boscov's

OPINION

Rat's Nest of Urban Politics Behind Philly's 'Big Stall'

Many demolitions, huge budget, no benefits

Jul 17, 08 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lamenting the lack of progress in another urban redevelopment project, Karen Heller takes aim at the Pennsylvania Convention Center expansion in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Center expansion has been in the works since 1993, spurring numerous building demolitions, but few new constructions: in short, North Broad Street, advertised as a... More »

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Pennsylvania • budget • Philadelphia • Ed Rendell • real estate development • urban revitalization • urban development

analysis

History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

Ruling party has only increased share of popular vote once since 1928

Jul 14, 08 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - In all six elections since 1928 in which one party had 8 consecutive years in the White House, the incumbent party lost popular vote ground; in four, Americans voted for change. That's bad news for John McCain, Robert David Sullivan writes in the Boston Globe, because George Bush only won... More »

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John McCain • Al Gore • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • Delaware • George W. Bush • incumbents • election history

analysis

Obama Up in Swing States, Making Red Inroads

Taking Virginia could be huge; Electoral College edge pronounced

Jun 18, 08 7:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama holds a 2-point edge over John McCain in recently red Virginia, a poll margin Eric Kleefeld, on Talking Points Memo, sees allowing Obama to make “the map of competitive states really ... much broader than usual this year.” Blogger Nate at FiveThirtyEight.com reads in the numbers... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • John McCain • Ohio • Pennsylvania • poll • Virginia

OPINION

Pa. Gov's Style Will Keep
Him Off National Ticket

Outspoken Rendell calls 'em as he sees 'em

Jun 10, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ed Rendell's incredible bluntness and honesty are worth celebrating, but those same qualities make the Pennsylvania governor unacceptable as a Democratic vice presidential candidate, Buzz Bissinger writes in the New Republic. Pairing him with Barack Obama might be “a fascinating marriage of the idealist and the schmoozing fixer,”... More »

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Barack Obama • Pennsylvania • Ed Rendell • vice president

 Obama Volunteers
 See Racial Vitriol
 First-Hand 

Candidate mainly insulated, but grass-roots types are definitely not

May 13, 08 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Volunteers in Barack Obama's campaign have had to steel themselves against racism on the trail, even as the White House hopeful has repeatedly played down the anti-black sentiment his candidacy has revealed. Though the campaign maintains its travels “only reinforced Sen. Obama’s view that this country is not... More »

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Barack Obama • Pennsylvania • Indiana • racism

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