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Pat Toomey on Economy, Tea Party and Pennsylvania Senate Race
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey was a Wall Street trader and helped start a family restaurant business before being elected to the House in 1998. He term-limited himself to six years and rose to national attention by almost beating Sen. Arlen Specter, then a Republican, in the 2004 Senate primary. Toomey spent the next few years heading the Club for Growth, a conservative, well-financed, anti-tax group that uses its clout against Republican moderates as well as Democrats. He next surfaced in headlines in 2009, when polls showed he would defeat Specter in the 2010 primary and Specter ...
Is Pat Toomey Married?
By jeanette friedman - Politics DailyPennsylvania Republican senatorial candidate Patrick J. Toomey is a former Republican congressman who served from January 1999 to January 2005. He is running against Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak, a two-term incumbent from Pennsylvania's Seventh District (since January 2007). As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about Pat Toomey's life. Is Pat Toomey married? Yes. Who is Pat Toomey's wife? Kris Ann Duncan. What does Kris Ann do for a living? Kris Ann Toomey is a homemaker. How ...
How Old Is Pat Toomey?
By jeanette friedman - Politics DailyPennsylvania Republican senatorial candidate Patrick J. Toomey is a former Republican congressman who served from January 1999 to January 2005. He is running against Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, a two-term incumbent from Pennsylvania's 7th District (since January 2007). As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about Pat Toomey's life. How old is Pat Toomey? Toomey is 48 years old. When was Pat Toomey born? Toomey was born on Nov. 17, 1961. Where was Pat Toomey born? Toomey was born in ...
How Old Is Joe Sestak?
By jeanette friedman - Politics DailyU.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, a two-term Democratic incumbent from Pennsylvania's 7th District (since January 2007), is running for the U.S. Senate against Pat Toomey, a former Republican congressman who served from January 1999 to January 2005. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about Sestak's life. How old is Joe Sestak? Sestak is 58 years old. When was Joe Sestak born? Sestak was born on Dec. 12, 1951. Where was Joe Sestak born? Sestak was born in Delaware County, Penn., where he has ...
Is Joe Sestak Married?
By jeanette friedman - Politics DailyU.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, a two-term Democratic incumbent from Pennsylvania's 7th District (since January 2007), is running for the U.S. Senate against Pat Toomey, a former Republican congressman who served from January 1999 to January 2005. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about Sestak's life. Is Joe Sestak married? Yes. Who is Joe Sestak's wife? Susan L. Clark-Sestak. What does Susan Clark-Sestak do for a living? Susan is a defense-policy analyst and is now helping her husband ...
Scott Brown Headlines Toomey Senate Fundraiser in Pennsylvania
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PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 24) -- Pennsylvania's Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Pat Toomey, continued his efforts to appeal to moderates with a visit Friday from Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, a tea party favorite until a centrist voting streak turned many former supporters against him. Brown, headliner for a Toomey fundraiser at a posh riverfront restaurant in Philadelphia, is the second Republican New England senator in two months to raise money for Toomey in this heavily Democratic city. Maine Sen. Susan Collins appeared at a fundraiser for Toomey in August. "We just need to bring some ...
Latest Polling in Colorado, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCNN/Time/Opinion Research has released polls of seven governor and Senate races in four much-watched states: Delaware, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. There are no big surprises in the results compared to other polls. Notable is the fact that the Republican candidates are winning among independents in five races, and the two where that is not the case have special twists: Delaware, where controversial Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell scored an upset in winning the GOP Senate nomination, and the Colorado governor race, which has become a three-way affair. All the polls were of ...
GOP's Pat Toomey Leads Democrat Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Pat Toomey holds a 50 percent to 43 percent lead over Democrat Joe Sestak in the race for the Pennsylvania Senate seat held by Republic-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Sept. 15-19. Seven percent are undecided. The margin of error is 3.8 points. While both candidates get strong support from their respective parties, Toomey, a former congressman and onetime head of the conservative Club for Growth, leads Sestak by 54 percent to 36 percent, with 10 percent undecided. Sestak is a second term congressman representing suburban ...
Poll: 6 in 10 Say Christine O'Donnell Not Qualified to Be Delaware's Senator
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFox News has rolled out another series of polls on key gubernatorial and Senate races around the nation conducted for it by Pulse Opinion Research, a new survey venture begun by Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports, and one of the findings is that 6 of 10 Delaware voters don't believe GOP nominee Christine O'Donnell is qualified to be a senator. In addition to Delaware, the four polls released today cover Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada and are pretty much in line with what other surveys have been finding in those states. The polls of likely voters were conducted Sept. 18 and have a margin of ...
Obama to Campaign for Joe Sestak in Philadelphia
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WASHINGTON (Sept. 20) - President Barack Obama heads to Pennsylvania on Monday to raise money for Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak, who is locked in a tight race for a seat considered a must-win for the president's party. Democrats know that Sestak's chances of winning depend heavily on the party's ability to ramp up voter turnout in cities like Philadelphia. With six weeks until the midterm elections, Obama is trying to fire up the party's base, urging the first-time voters that helped him win the White House in 2008 to head back to the polls in November. "I need everybody here to go ...
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