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Obama Town Hall Meeting in Philadelphia Saturday June 14th

Details about precisely where this event will take place have yet to be released, but it will be in the Philadelphia area.
Philadelphia area “Change That Works For You” Town Hall Meeting
Philadelphia Area

Obama Draws His Largest Crowd Ever in Philadelphia

In Philadelphia Friday night, Obama drew about 35,000 people in downtown Philadelphia, easily surpassing his previous high of 30,000 in South Carolina with Oprah Winfrey.
Sen. Barack Obama drew 35,000 people at a downtown rally tonight in Independence Park, local security officials told the campaign, making the crowd at this evening’s event his largest ever. [...]

Absolutely Brilliant Undercover Philadelphia Campaign Reporting

Tom Namako’s piece from the Philly City Paper is a great read.  His experience mirrors my own in dealing with the Pittsburgh Clinton campaign office — the missed phone calls, the locked doors, and the stagecraft.  It just perpetuates the dissonance problem that Clinton’s image faces and strikes me as dismissive and condescending.
My first task [...]

Rambling Observations

I spent all of yesterday in Philadelphia. (And, yes Effie, there are signs up!  They were about half and half for Obama and Clinton, one for Ron Paul, and none for McCain.)
I would love to be telling you that I was there for the debate (or whatever that was), but alas, I was not.  It [...]

ABC News Loses Pennsylvania Debate

While neither Democratic candidate looked particularly good last night, both looked better than ABC News debate moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous. Where were the questions about policy and issues?  It may or may not be ABC’s fault that both candidates performed so poorly, but the likely winner of this debate was John McCain.
Obama [...]

Philadelphia Daily News Endorses Obama

The Philadelphia Daily News endorsed Obama this morning.  In their rationale, they dismiss Clinton’s experience argument:
We are frankly troubled by her assumption that her husband’s administration and accomplishments were her own.

Another Note From the Nitpicker……

If it appears that I’m picking a little on Obama, it’s because I am.  This is my attempt to level the playing field as one little blogger vs National TV and their obvious choice.  I just heard a brief interview by our local channel here in Philly.  It seems that last year during the Mayoral campaign, Senator [...]

Stephen Colbert to be in Philadelphia April 14th through 17th

Colbert will be in Philadelphia from April 14th through the 17th to cover the Pennsylvania primary. He’s encouraging his viewers to participate in donorschoose.org to donate money to Pennsylvania schools.
Update: Of course, tickets have sold out.  How many minutes did that take I wonder?

Live From Pennsylvania, It’s Hillary Clinton!

Standing in line Monday to see Hillary Clinton at Montgomery County Community College.

I told them I wrote for the PA Primary blog, so they gave me these great seats. I think one of these women is Hillary Clinton.

Making my way closer. I loved seeing all the students attending.

I know, I know. I [...]

Obama Plans Bus Tour Through Pennsylvania This Week

Several national media outlets are reporting that Barack Obama will do a bus tour of PA from Friday through Wednesday. He has spent only 3 days since the Mississippi primary in the state so far and will be coming off of a vacation in the Virgin Islands. He’ll start in western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) [...]