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

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

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