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Nov 14, 2024
Incumbent Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) is demanding a recount in his loss to Republican challenger Dave McCormick. But the votes aren't there for Casey
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Nov 8, 2024
Almost all of this nation's big cultural institutions again missed the thoughts of ordinary people who were right in front of them, asking to be heard.
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Nov 5, 2024
Trump supporters continue to be enthused in battleground Pennsylvania, but both campaigns are working hard here.
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Oct 31, 2024
Even in heavily Puerto Rican Allentown, Pennsylvania, Trump saw little protest resulting from a pro-Trump comedian's anti-Puerto Rico jokes.
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Oct 23, 2024
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk found an enthusiastic audience while touring Pennsylvania to promote the First and Second amendments and urge people to vote.
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Oct 22, 2024
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Oct 21, 2024
Incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is airing an ad bragging that he sided with Donald Trump on some matters. It's quite an indicator.
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Oct 17, 2024
Tim Walz was in western Pennsylvania targeting his messages differently to different audiences as all four candidates visit the state.
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Oct 16, 2024
Voters at a manufacturing plant in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, were impressed that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) seemed to understand their concerns and culture.
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Oct 11, 2024
If Donald Trump can keep his losses in Philadelphia to a minimum, he will win Pennsylvania in the presidential race.
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Oct 7, 2024
Barack Obama may have won Pennsylvania twice, but working-class voters have shifted toward Republicans since 2012.
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Oct 4, 2024
The blind spot in the media, and with Democrats and some Republicans, is it sees people in silos of race, whereas ordinary voters see themselves as all having the same problems,...
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Oct 2, 2024
The longshoremen's strike may cause major disruptions for the American food supply chain.
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Sep 27, 2024
Erie County is the very heart of the "swing vote counties" that will determine the outcome of this election. Donald Trump is coming here soon.
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Sep 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump spent a full day covering more than 100 miles of Western Pennsylvania, showing a keen ear for local concerns.
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Sep 23, 2024
Republican Senate challenger Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania keeps showing up to places where factories are closing, showing support for the workers.
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Sep 19, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration's pause on exports of liquified natural gas is harmful to the domestic economy and national security.
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Sep 18, 2024
Luzerne County's shift from a Democratic stronghold to a hotbed of Trumpism shows why Republicans may win Pennsylvania in 2024.
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Sep 16, 2024
Douglas Hohman, a 22-year-old newly registered voter, said economic considerations are leading him to vote for former President Donald Trump in November.
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Sep 12, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris can't win Pennsylvania without staying competitive in coal country.
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Sep 9, 2024
Tim Walz made numerous stops in Pennsylvania but repeatedly refused to take questions from local media outlets.
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Sep 6, 2024
The Harris-Walz ticket is planning lengthy visits to Pennsylvania, which demonstrates again just how important the state is in the presidential election.
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Sep 4, 2024
Former President Donald Trump, who is campaigning in Pennsylvania, promised to lower the prices of everything by lowering the cost of energy.
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Aug 30, 2024
Despite what national media may say, Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance connected with the people of Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Aug 20, 2024
Kamala Harris's campaign advertised a stop in Pittsburgh, but it really was just a carefully controlled event at an airport hangar in Beaver County.
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Aug 15, 2024
One of the worst aftereffects of this decade's huge inflation spike is growing credit card debt, which plagues more than 60% of families across America.
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Aug 13, 2024
Nuclear power is making a comeback, and the Nuclear Company's new pro-nuclear tour is carrying that message.
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Aug 9, 2024
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) returned to his forte as governor 48 hours after not making the Democratic presidential ticket.
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Aug 7, 2024
Kamala Harris's choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate shows she'll try to win by exciting her "base" voters, not winning converts from the middle.
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Aug 2, 2024
Back in Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump forges connections with members of the middle class.
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Jul 24, 2024
Pennsylvanians in large numbers aren't just moving Donald Trump's way but actually reregistering from Democrat to Republican.
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Jul 14, 2024
A gunman tried to assassinate Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena Zito was there.
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Jul 11, 2024
By choosing Butler County, Pennsylvania, for a weekend rally location, former President Donald Trump is showing a canny strategy for building his winning coalition.
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Jul 8, 2024
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Jun 25, 2024
Jill Biden has been campaigning in Pennsylvania with a shrill, tone-deaf message about abortion rights. That's not the issue most important to voters, by far.
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Jun 24, 2024
It has been just under six months since Rich Fitzgerald walked into the Allegheny County Courthouse, something he did daily for over a dozen years as the county’s chief...
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Jun 20, 2024
On most days after work, Brandon Borischak can be found doing one of two things: tinkering with car engines or just cars in general.
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Jun 18, 2024
After her unexpected win, the perennial candidate has to answer for some odd choices and legal lapses in her campaign. By Salena Zito
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Jun 11, 2024
Dave McCormick, who is challenging Sen. Bob Casey, said that during his 67-county bus tour, he has learned about what is important to voters across the state.
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Jun 6, 2024
Pittsburgh Democrats have changed since the unity after the Tree of Life synagogue massacre.
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May 23, 2024
The closure of Ferri's, a small family grocer in Pennsylvania, shows some of the ravages of heavy inflation.
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May 10, 2024
Senseless tragedy mysteriously was avoided at he church shooting that almost happened Sunday in Pennsylvania.
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May 6, 2024
A group of old Bentley car owners meeting in Pennsylvania reminds us that nostalgia and voluntary associations make democracy itself work better.
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May 3, 2024
A steel plant is closing in West Virginia with 900 jobs lost, but the national media are paying almost no attention as lives are upended.
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Apr 30, 2024
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Apr 29, 2024
The media highlighted how many votes Donald Trump lost in Pennsylvania to Nikki Haley but didn't report the huge Democratic protest vote against Joe Biden.
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Apr 24, 2024
The Biden EEOC is filing a federal lawsuit to stop Sheetz gasoline company, a Pennsylvania mainstay, from using criminal background checks. How weird.
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Apr 16, 2024
The fate of United States Steel is in President Joe Biden's hands now.
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Apr 11, 2024
Private polling shows that hard-Left U.S. Rep. Summer Lee is likely to win her Democratic primary race against a liberal, but not leftist, challenger.
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Apr 5, 2024
Voter registration numbers in Pennsylvania, especially in blue-collar constitutencies, are trending significantly in the Republicans' direction.
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Apr 3, 2024
In a Pittsburgh suburb, Democratic three-term Sen. Bob Casey tried to rally support at a union event, although blue-collar voters have trended Republican.
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Mar 29, 2024
A movement in Pennsylvania to garner "uncommitted" votes in the presidential primary could spill into and decide the fall campaign.
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Mar 27, 2024
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro prevailed upon the Biden administration to delay a rule on transformers that would have closed a historic steel plant.
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Mar 26, 2024
Pittsburgh's 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club, previously friendly to her, has backed a challenger this time around.
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Mar 25, 2024
Joe Burkhart is busy working at his job as a maintenance manager at a processor here in Cambria County.
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Mar 18, 2024
President Joe Biden's extremist environmental agenda is undermining his efforts to keep U.S. Steel from being sold to a foreign buyer.
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Mar 7, 2024
Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), whose roots are with the Democratic Socialists of America, now sees her progressive base losing influence.
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Mar 5, 2024
Pennsylvania voters are not happy with President Joe Biden's decision to halt LNG exports.
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Mar 4, 2024
A Biden Energy Department rule proposal would destroy 1,500 Pennsylvania jobs while endangering the supply chain for the nation's electric grid.
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Feb 22, 2024
Even lifelong Democrats such as former CBS executive Marc Rayfield are leaving President Joe Biden due to crime, the border, and other key issues.
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Feb 19, 2024
As Gina Frattali Sherman explains it, at the time it happened Bob Casey Jr. didn’t think it was particularly funny to take a hard left hook to the face from one of his best...
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Feb 13, 2024
In Pennsylvania, Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick is campaigning in out-of-the way rural areas to bolster his campaign.
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Feb 8, 2024
Two House races in Pennsylvania, one intraparty battle and the other between parties, could be major indicators of national political trends.
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Jan 22, 2024
It is a little past 8:30 in the morning, and Dave McCormick is walking into his alma mater, Bloomsburg High School.
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Jan 10, 2024
Pennsylvania candidate Dave McCormick was horrified when visiting Israeli victims of Hamas.
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Jan 2, 2024
His emergence as a pro-Israel moderate hasn’t surprised Pennsylvania political observers.