Tweet It was almost 6 p.m. when we discovered in the newsroom that Andrew Stack, the pilot who attacked the IRS building in Austin, was a graduate of the Milton Hershey School, right in our backyard. For my first 2.5 years at The Patriot-News I covered the residential school for underprivileged children, so I offered …
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TweetWhen you’re the only reporter in the newsroom on a Sunday night, you have to be ready to write any kind of story — even if you have no prior sourcing on it whatsoever. I know how to reach the police chief, but what happens when you need to do a political story, you can’t …
Tweet When I had an internship at The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, my life was turned upside down: Jeopardy was on at 6:00 p.m., and Wheel of Fortune was on at 6:30 p.m. Back home in Pennsylvania it was the other way around: Wheel of Fortune was on first, then Jeopardy. They were the same two …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News As Barack Obama emerged in front of an estimated crowd of 22,000 in front of Old Main on the Penn State University campus, Ashley Sims shouted the kind of welcome usually reserved for pop stars. “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I love you, Barack! Look at me! Hi!” …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News Nearly four years ago, Sen. John Kerry stood outside the Capitol in Harrisburg, telling an estimated 20,000 supporters why they should make him their president. Sunday’s return visit to the midstate, which included two stops in Carlisle and one in West Hanover Twp., was a bit different. Stumping for …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News Where, in a state such as Pennsylvania, could the Barack Obama campaign place 65 offices? How about Mansfield, a town 45 miles north of Scranton that in 2007 had a population of 3,223? Or Montrose, about 50 miles north of Williamsport and home to 1,547 people? Both small towns …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News To analysts and pollsters watching the presidential campaign, it’s a no-brainer: Pennsylvania’s deeply blue. Some said Republican presidential candidate John McCain should heed polls that give his Democratic rival, Barack Obama , solid double-digit leads in the state, abandon ship and divert spending to more competitive states such as …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News When a presidential candidate visits a town just two weeks before an election, that suggests it’s a pretty significant area. To visit the same region again just a week before Election Day, well, we must really be important. Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News No more punditry, no more polls, no more advertisements and no more robocalls. Today it’s finally out of everyone else’s hands, and into your own. We’ll know tonight whether Pennsylvania was the state that tipped the election, or whether strategists will second-guess those dozens of visits that candidates paid …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR AND CHARLES THOMPSON Of The Patriot-News Barack Obama ‘s strategy of spending his campaign time in emerging battlegrounds — instead of old battlegrounds like Pennsylvania — was vindicated as he easily carried our 21 electoral votes despite John McCain’s repeated visits. Turns out we weren’t as much of a swing state as …
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