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In a front-page story — with a faux-banner headline, kinda — in The Evening Bulletin, the newspaper that complains about media bias talks about the great white hope:
Political talk fills the papers and airwaves in the City of Brotherly Love these days.
Most of the yowling and yammering at the moment has to do with the growing confidence the Democrats are feeling in the statewide elections coming in November.
While the bright hope lies with Republican Senator Rick Santorum rapidly closing the once double-digit lead of his Democratic challenger, Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey, down to low single digits, most of the other Republican incumbents in this area are finding themselves in the fight of their political lives.
Indeed! There is this nice little chestnut here, though:
David C. Thomsen is the Republican Chairman in the 15th Ward. This past year he assisted in an effort to get Temple graduate David Corbett on the ballot to run against Frank Oliver in the 195th legislative district. The campaign came close to getting 300 signatures, but wasn’t near enough.
“Third parties get three or four months to gather signatures. We only get three weeks.” Thomsen complained.
Yeah, those third parties have it so easy. Well, okay, maybe when the Republicans support them it’s a little easier.
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