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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Congressional Delegation 3 State Government 4 Cities & Counties 5 Elections 6 Pennsylvania Democratic Party 7 News, Etc 8 Political Blogs 9 External Links 10 See also

Introduction

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, nicknamed "The Keystone State", was the second state to join the Union on Dec. 12, 1787. With 12.6 million residents, it is the 6th most populous state.

Ed Rendell's Political Strategy for Statewide Offices in Pennsylvania. Rendell believes that the way for Democrats to win statewide office in Pennsylvania is for them to hold their own in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and to overwhelm the Republican candidate in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery). Rendell proved his strategy with his 2002 gubernatorial election when he won only 18 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. However, he won Philadelphia by a 280,000 vote margin and Philadelphia's surrounding four counties by almost 235,000 votes. Ed cruised to victory by close to 333,000 votes, 53.6% to 44.2% over his Republican opponent Mike Fisher.

James Carville famously describes Pennsylvania as "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between."

Congressional Delegation

• U.S. Senators

Senator	In Office Since	Next Election	Candidates / Notes
Bob Casey, Jr (D)	2007	2012	Defeated two-term Republican incumbent Rick Santorum in the 2006 U.S. Senate election.
Pat Toomey (R)	2011	2016	Defeated Democratic candidate Joe Sestak in the general election on November 2, 2010.

• U.S. Representatives (Click on District to see district details including election results.)

District	Representative	In Office Since
PA-01	Bob Brady (D)	1999
PA-02	Chaka Fattah (D)	1995
PA-03	Mike Kelly (R)	2011
PA-04	Jason Altmire (D)	2007
PA-05	Glenn Thompson (R)	2009
PA-06	Jim Gerlach (R)	2003
PA-07	Pat Meehan (R)	2011
PA-08	Mike Fitzpatrick (R)	2011
PA-09	Bill Shuster (R)	2001
PA-10	Tom Marino (R)	2011
PA-11	Lou Barletta (R)	2011
PA-12	Mark Critz (D)	1975
PA-13	Allyson Schwartz (D)	2005
PA-14	Mike Doyle (D)	1995
PA-15	Charles Dent (R)	2005
PA-16	Joe Pitts (R)	1997
PA-17	Tim Holden (D)	1993
PA-18	Tim Murphy (R)	2003
PA-19	Todd Platts (R)	2001

• US Congressional Delegations from (Wikipedia)

State Government

• Executive Branch

Office	Office Holder	In Office Since	Next Election	Candidates / Notes
Governor	Tom Corbett (R)	2011	2014
Lt. Governor	Jim Cawley (R)	2011	2014
Attorney General	Linda Kelly (R)	2011	2012	Since 1980, when this office became an elected one, no Democrat has ever succeeded in winning this post.
Treasurer	Rob McCord (D)	2008	2012
Auditor General	Jack Wagner (D)	2005	2012

• Legislative Branch
  • Pennsylvania General Assembly
• Judicial Branch
  • Judiciary
• State Constitution
  • Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (State of Pennsylvania)

Cities & Counties

• Pennsylvania County Selection Map (U.S. Census)

Elections

• Election information (Pennsylvania Secretary of State)
• Pennsylvania election results
• see U.S. elections

Pennsylvania Democratic Party

• Pennsylvania Democratic Party

==Pennsylvania progressive resources

• Irregular States: The Progressive State of Pennsylvania

News, Etc

• Pennsylvania Newspapers (NewsLink.org)
• Pennsylvania Newspapers and News Media Guide(ABYZ News Links)
• Pennsylvania Politicians On The Issues (OnTheIssues.org)

Political Blogs

• Above Average Jane
• A Smoke Filled Room
• Comments from Left Field
• Daddy Democrat
• Early Returns
• Fumo Trial Blog
• Gort42
• GrassrootsPA
• John Micek's Capitol Ideas
• Keystone Campaigns
• Lehigh Valley Common Sense
• Lehigh Valley Ramblings
• Little Blog Blue (Blog of VoteBluePA, a progressive grassroots organization in Southcentral PA)
• LV Dem
• PCNblog
• Pennsylvania Avenue
• PennPatriot Online
• Pennsylvania Policy Blog
• The Pennsylvania Progressive
• Pennsyltucky Politics
• PhillyFuture
• Piltdownman
• Philly
• Progress Pittsburgh
• PSoTD
• Ross Notes
• The Casey Post
• The Thin Man
• Tony Phyrillas
• True Democrats of Lehigh County
• Truth in our House
• Two Political Junkies
• Young Philly Politics

External Links

• PA PowerPort (Official State Portal)
• PoliticsPA.com

See also

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