This man, perhaps.
“Former Vice President Al Gore, who has not declared his candidacy for the 2008 presidential nomination, runs better in Pennsylvania than any Democrat against the Republican front runner, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: Gore has 45 percent to Giuliani’s 44 percent,” a Quinnipiac University poll released today finds.
Among the rest of […]

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Quinnipiac University’s out with a new poll that finds most Pennsylvanians support the idea of raising the 6 percent sales tax if the revenue’s used to cut school property taxes. “Some 57 percent now support the proposed one percent sales tax hike to get money to cut property taxes, a slight increase over the […]

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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review stopped by The Clip for a Barnstormers game recently and, in Tuesday’s edition, examined whether the $47 million in taxpayer money handed out by the state to build or renovate small ballparks and stadiums since 2003 is paying off.
For fans, minor league baseball is affordable family entertainment — with $1.75 […]

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Is the school property-tax system really the most important problem facing Pennsylvania today? I don’t know, but judging by the amount of time our state lawmakers spend talking about it, coupled with public-opinion surveys such as Franklin & Marshall’s Keystone Poll below, I’d have said yeah, OK, that sounds about right.

But then I go and […]

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Jere Swarr’s Web site, which went live earlier this week, lists Rep. Tom Creighton as chairman of Swarr’s campaign for Lancaster County commissioner. Got that? A Republican lawmaker serving the top post in an independent candidate’s race against the party-backed team.
It turns out, that’s a mistake, says Swarr campaign manager Shelley Castetter. When Swarr was […]

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Suffering from post-primary depression? Perhaps a touch of campaign-related withdrawal? We’ve posted an Excel spreadsheet of the county commissioners primary results over at “Fun With Numbers,” where we’re starting to compile various data. You can also download it directly by clicking here. There are three tabs, on each for city, borough and township results. Have […]

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AND THEY’RE OFF: Jere Swarr allowed, oh, about three seconds pass after the polls closed Tuesday night in the Lancaster County commissioners primary before issuing his first pledge of the fall 2007 campaign. Swarr, the Rapho Township Republican independent who’s preparing to challenge the Republican and Democratic nominees in November, promised to run a squeaky […]

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The GOP-endorsed team of Dennis Stuckey and Scott Martin was narrowly edging out Charlie Smithgall among 126 GOP voters interviewed across the county this morning. Heidi Wheaton was trailing all three by a wide margin, the poll found. Stuckey, the county controller, won 30.6 percent of the total vote. Martin, the former director of the […]

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One of the biggest disadvantages unendorsed candidates have on Election Day is they face a party machine that has the capability to dispatch a couple hundred poll workers on behalf of its team. The New Era reports today that the campaigns for the two unendorsed Republicans running for Lancaster County commissioner, Charlie Smithgall and […]

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Dave Dumeyer’s had a pretty rough four years, 10 months and 19 days as Republican Party chairman here in Lancaster County. He’s clashed with former House Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Brett Feese and the so-called “godfather of Lancaster County Politics,” Sen. Gib Armstrong, over the HRCC’s support of Armstrong’s son, Rep. Gib Armstrong, instead […]

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