I have reposted the link for Bill Neff’s campaign site for the 13th District state Senate seat representing Lancaster City, its suburbs and just about everywhere south, plus parts of eastern York County.
Neff is considering a write-in bid to succeed retiring state Sen. Gib Armstrong.
One thing that makes one wonder about any chance of success: […]

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So the state Senate set aside Sen. Mike Brubaker’s proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage yesterday because the state House planned to send it to the State Government Committee, where it would surely have died without a vote.
I’ve opposed this amendment — preferring an amendment that calls for a ban on a court-imposed definition of […]

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Vince Fumo, who’s retiring from the state Senate this year, put himself in a hole yesterday while questioning a pastor testifying on gay marriage. And Fumo just kept digging.
“What you’re advocating here is that we take away the rights of a minority. And I don’t think that’s right,” he told Giblert Coleman Jr., a Philadelphia […]

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In a look way down the road, a columnist at the New York Sun says Chris Matthews, of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” should be considered a viable Democratic candidate to challenge U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010.
Specter, 78, says he plans to seek a sixth, six-year term. Matthews, 62, has largely discouraged talk of making a run.
As […]

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Lancaster County Republican officials are reportedly gearing up to draft a strategy to win back approximately 500 county Republicans who switched parties for the April 22 primary.
I hope they modify, or outright forget about, the approach outlined by county GOP chairman Dave Dumeyer in the Intelligencer Journal this week.
GOP overtures likely will paint Democrats as […]

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That’s the headline on a Time magazine story posted Wednesday, a day after Hillary Clinton whooped Barack Obama by 10 points here in Pennsylvania.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe vehemently disavowed a Washington Post report Wednesday that they intended to go heavily negative following the loss in Pennsylvania—dredging up old sores such as former President Bill […]

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The dominant, and probably largely correct, explanation for Barack Obama’s ability to win more votes in Lancaster County than Hillary Clinton — he beat her by 4,416 votes here — is that Lancaster County Democrats are more liberal than their counterparts statewide.
There’s another explanation, and it could be part of it.
It could be that Obama’s […]

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Lloyd Smucker ran a heck of a campaign, scoring 48 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s four-man primary to succeed state Sen. Gib Armstrong.
Former County Commissioner Paul Thibault, my pick for the seat, blamed negative Smucker-financed advertising for his loss.
That might have had something to do with holding Thibault’s numbers down (he finished third with […]

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Time magazine reports today that a weekend poll of likely Democratic voters favors Hillary Rodham Clinton 52-42%.
Wow.
If correct, the poll suggests that Barack Obama’s closing of the gap has either been overstated or dramatically reversed.
One explanation: The polls says 56% of those responding to the poll had watched Wednesday’s Democratic debate.
Were they unsatisfied by Obama’s […]

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In the weirdest political news of the weekend, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination on Sunday.
The paper, owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, the man Clinton was talking about when she spoke of the “vast right-wing consipracy” of the 1990s, gave Clinton credit for her experience as a U.S. senator (a […]

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