Stand back, I am going to try talk about issue of race in the presidential election without histrionics or hysterics.
Let’s begin with a prediction.
In next week’s election, Barack Obama will win 99 percent of the black vote in Philadelphia.
To some people, that would be proof that blacks will only vote for blacks and that this is [...]

With the election – finally, at last, thank heavens – just a week away, the race for President has taken up most of the political oxygen. But there are a number of other races that will be on the ballot, including half the Pennsylvania State Senate and all 203 House seats.
Most incumbents will [...]

Let’s assume for a minute that John McCain’s campaign is right and the polls are wrong and that he does have a chance of winning Pennsylvania on Nov. 4.

How does he pull it off?

If you listen to his campaign people this is their equation:

1. McCain does extraordinarily well in the Republican heartland [...]

The Inquirer endorsed Barack Obama on Sunday. Sort of.
There was a dissenting opinion that ran below the main editorial that stated the case for John McCain.  Insiders at the paper tell me that was added at the insistence of Brian Tierney, a life-long Republican who also happens to be the newspaper’s publisher.

It was an unusual [...]

Is there a scheme to engage in widespread voter fraud on Nov. 4 in Pennsylvania to steal the election from John McCain?

That is the claim made in a GOP suit filed Friday.  The state party said that without court intervention the outcome of the election “may be determined by illegal ballots.” Allegations of vote stealing [...]

John McCain and Sarah Palin spent Tuesday campaigning in Pennsylvania, but they should put their time to better use. It’s over in Pennsylvania and the winner will be Barack Obama.
The public polls say it. The political experts say it. In private, even Republican leaders concede it. Pennsylvania’s 21 electoral votes are going to Obama.
What looked [...]