Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has announced the venue for his Monday rally in Lancaster: the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology on East King Street. The event, expected to draw at least 2,000 people, will be held in the schools’s John E. Barley Multipurpose Activity Center.
Here’s the location of Thaddeus Stevens.
The $8 million, 61,000-square-foot facility (pictured […]

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When all else fails, reach for a crowbar.
From ABC News’ Jake Tapper:
It is improbable but, yes, still mathematically possible that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton could win the Democratic presidential nomination.
What Democratic officials across the country fear is what Clinton will have to do to party rival Illinois Sen. Barack Obama — who […]

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Why isn’t this question fair game?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAO6bZa31o

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From The New York Times:

At the rally, (Hillary Clinton) belittled the idea that Mr. Obama’s 2002 speech “at an antiwar rally” prepared him to serve as commander in chief. She said he was “missing in action” on the recent Senate vote on Iran and as chairman of a subcommittee responsible for NATO policy in Afghanistan.
Contrasting […]

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They would be the members of his adoring press corps, whom he played “like a Stradivarius,” claims Kimberley A. Strassel of The Wall Street Journal’s Potomac Watch column.
“He knew what sort of storyline they’d be sympathetic to, and spun it. He knew, too, that as financial journalism has become more competitive, breaking news can make […]

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Five school districts in Lancaster County have received permission from the state to raise taxes higher than their original inflation-governed limit under Act 1, the New Era reports today. The districts, and their original limits, are Columbia, 6.3 percent; Eastern Lancaster County, 4.4 percent; Lancaster, 5.1 percent; Hempfield, 6.3 percent; and Solanco, 5.4 percent.
Officials in […]

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Gov. Rendell cornered by Russert on “Meet the Press” Sunday:
MR. RUSSERT: Would–do you think that Barack Obama would be acceptable as vice president?
GOV. RENDELL: Acceptable? I think it would be a dream to Democrats all over this country. Personally, for me, it would be a great ticket. I mean, I’m […]

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New in The File Cabinet today: The Lancaster County GOP is asking a federal judge to dismiss committeewoman Millie Max’s amended complaint alleging the party and its chairman and executive director violated her civil and free-speech rights by not allowing her to criticize two judicial candidates in the May primary.

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The pundits can’t seem to figure out whether the Gov will be a help or — given his penchant to, ahem, speak his mind in a somewhat colorful manner — hindrance to Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, which is now the center of the universe.
From the Allentown Morning Call:
Rendell’s reserve of personal popularity, fundraising muscle and […]

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