Democratic Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Rep. Joe Sestak last week came out with this commercial. Puppies! Cute! It reminds me a bit of this ad from Michael Steele’s campaign for Maryland Senate. Steele was widely praised for his innovative ads, though he lost his bid for that seat. The Republican in the Pennsylvania race, former Rep. [...]
In a statement, Joe Sestak recounts pretty much the same story the White House is giving about its efforts to persuade him to stay out of the Senate race in Pennsylvania. Via Dave Weigel, here’s what Sestak says happened: Last summer, I received a phone call from President Clinton. During the course of the conversation, [...]
Is here. In the memo, White House chief counsel Bob Bauer says that Sestak was approached (via Bill Clinton) in June and July 2009 about an unpaid position in the Obama Administration, “which would avoid a divisive Senate primary.” (Arlen Specter switched from the Republican to Democratic parties in April 2009.) The White House memo [...]
On Tuesday night as Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter took the stage to give his concession speech he thanked the crowd and remarked at the large number of media in the room – which nearly doubled the size of his audience. “Look at all these reporters, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many,” he said [...]
There are a lot of races this week — perhaps the busiest primary week since the 2008 season. Here’s a story from me about the five top Democratic primaries. Obviously, as I mention, there’s also the Rand Paul/Trey Grayson smackdown in Kentucky on the Republican side which it looks like Paul will likely win in [...]
