Friday, April 5, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013

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What about Rick?
Santorum gets no respect in the 2016 presidential speculation after finishing second in the 2012 GOP primaries.
Booker vs. Geraldo for U.S. Senate?
This would be the craziest Senate race ever, and it could happen.
Rep. Michele Bachmann´s is being challenged by Arthur Caplan to produce a case after Bachmann told Fox News and NBC´s Today show this week that she had heard from a distraught mother whose daughter "suffered mental retardation" from taking the Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine.
House office probes Bachmann's 2012 campaign
WASHINGTON - Rep. Michele Bachmann and her short-lived campaign last year for the GOP presidential nomination are being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics.
A Familiar Political Tale
Fundraising in Pennsylvania politics seems immune to change.
Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman, said of November: "There´s no one reason we lost." (AP)
Open primaries would aid the GOP
Michael Smerconish: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called it an "autopsy."
Per a longstanding tradition, 41 Traffic Court candidates picked bingo balls out of a coffee can Wednesday during a City Commission hearing to determine ballot positions. (Daily News File Photo)
Ballot spots picked for May 21 primary
Anne Marie Coyle, one of three dozen Democratic candidates for Common Pleas Court, got the top ballot spot this week in drawings at the Department of State in Harrisburg. The coveted ballot position is often a major factor in determining who wins the primary election, scheduled for May 21.
Evelyn Dennis, of Fort Lee, N.J., hangs a U.S. flag as election workers set up voting booths at Memorial Elementary School in Little Ferry, N.J., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The school is hosting the all districts in town because the nearby Washington Elementary School is still without power following Superstorm Sandy. Most of the town is still without power. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
N.J. bill on early voting at polls is approved
New Jersey legislators have adopted a bill that would allow early voting at polling places.
Judicial turnover could bring major change to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court over several years, but Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille isn’t ready to leave the bench one day sooner than he must.
Pa.'s Supreme Court faces one heck of mess
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is facing big issues, infighting and filling an empty seat.
Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks at a gun violence conference in Danbury, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The conference was held near Newtown, Conn. where 26 lives were lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, was organized by members of the state´s congressional delegation is to push President Barack Obama´s gun control proposals. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Biden to Michigan, SC for major Dem fundraisers
Vice President Joe Biden will headline major Democratic fundraisers in South Carolina and Michigan, two states that could play a major role in the 2016 presidential election.
"Fall to Grace": Cheryl Collins (left), Jim McGreevey, and Shirley Reeves in prison counseling. HBO
McGreevey walking tall as inmate counselor
Thomas Fitzgerald: For former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, an Irish prince, the story was supposed to end with him in the Oval Office.
What about Rick?
Santorum gets no respect in the 2016 presidential speculation after finishing second in the 2012 GOP primaries.
State Senator Lloyd Smucker represents Lancaster and York Counties. (Photo from senatorsmucker.com)
Pa. pol proposes online registration
Pa. Independent: Should you also be able to declare yourself a legal voter in the state of Pennsylvania online? State Sen. Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster, sponsor of a bill to create online voter registration in Pennsylvania, thinks so.
Pa. jury commissioner dispute heads back to court
A Pennsylvania court will consider legal arguments as it tries to figure out what to do about the primary election now that the state Supreme Court has thrown out a law that let counties abolish the office of jury commissioner.
To vote in Pennsylvania on Nov. 6, you do not need to have a photo ID. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)
Arkansas' GOP-led Legislature passes voter ID law
Arkansas legislators passed a law Monday requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, overriding Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the bill, which he called an expensive solution to a non-existent problem.
A Familiar Political Tale
Fundraising in Pennsylvania politics seems immune to change.
In this photo taken March 25, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, uses a chart to talk about the U.S. budget deficit during a town hall meeting with constituents in Montgomery, Ohio. Here in the Cincinnati suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away. If any Republican House members might be open to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, Chabot would seem near the top. Yet he toes an unyielding conservative line on virtually every big issue. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
Far from D.C., gridlock roots
Districts, such as in Ohio, where flexibility seems likely hit impasses.
MONTGOMERY, Ohio - Here in Cincinnati's suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away.
Booker vs. Geraldo for U.S. Senate?
This would be the craziest Senate race ever, and it could happen.
Rep. Michele Bachmann´s is being challenged by Arthur Caplan to produce a case after Bachmann told Fox News and NBC´s Today show this week that she had heard from a distraught mother whose daughter "suffered mental retardation" from taking the Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine.
House office probes Bachmann's 2012 campaign
WASHINGTON - Rep. Michele Bachmann and her short-lived campaign last year for the GOP presidential nomination are being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman, said of November: "There´s no one reason we lost." (AP)
Open primaries would aid the GOP
Michael Smerconish: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called it an "autopsy."
General Election 2012 results
Here are the complete results of the 2012 General Election for New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
State Senator Lloyd Smucker represents Lancaster and York Counties. (Photo from senatorsmucker.com)
Pa. pol proposes online registration
Pa. Independent: Should you also be able to declare yourself a legal voter in the state of Pennsylvania online? State Sen. Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster, sponsor of a bill to create online voter registration in Pennsylvania, thinks so.
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