The media is off to the races about Tom Ridge going up vs. Arlen Specter, but how the heck can someone like Ridge, with a quasi-sensible position on abortion, even make it through the GOP primary? The right is mainlining crazy even more than usual right now and is not going to ...read more

• By Oliver Willis
  Feb 17, 2016

Toomey insists that he can win Pennsylvania. Why? Because Ronald Reagan won there twice so surely nothing has changed. Pennsylvania 2008 Obama 54% McCain 44% 2004 Kerry 50% Bush 48% 2000 Gore 50% Bush 46% 1996 Clinton 49% Dole 39% 1992 Clinton 45% Bush 36% 1988 ...read more

• By Oliver Willis
  Feb 17, 2016

Pat Toomey is thinking of challenging Arlen Specter again. There might be enough conservative base rage to get it done, but a moderate-seeming incumbent like Specter is the GOP's best chance to hold on to that seat, so... go Toomey! ...read more

• By Oliver Willis
  Nov 9, 2018