Kyle Bell

Republican politicians in Pennsylvania have floated around the idea of changing state election law to give their party’s nominee an advantage in next year’s election. The Democratic-leaning state has not supported a Republican for president since George Bush’s father in 1988 against Michael Dukakis. Barack Obama easily defeated John McCain here in 2008 by a [...]

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9:50 p.m.: That’s it. The debate is over. Not much new came out of it. I watched it so that you didn’t have to. The one surprise that I had was the amount of unanimity among the candidates. The only real disagreements were over Romney’s healthcare plan (basically everyone on stage agreed that Romney’s plan [...]

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It’s only been a few weeks since he entered, but Rick Perry quickly vaulted to the top of the Republican field. He seemed like the dream candidate for Tea Party voters: he denies the existence of climate change, he calls top government officials treasonous and hints that they should be roughed up, creationism should be [...]

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