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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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News Of the ways Deborah Griffin’s life wouldn’t have been the same without her eight years at the Scotland School for Veterans’ Children, chief among them is that she would have never known what a fishing rodeo was. You don’t see ponds in inner-city Philadelphia, where in her early years …
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Tweet(This is posted simply so it can be added to my Clips page. Also visit this previous entry to see the video I made along with the story.) BY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News More than two years ago, Hersheypark officials privately gambled that few people would miss the Western Chute-Out. They figured the water …
TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News There was never much space between 4-year-old Grace Stanley and her mother, Louann. They routinely slept snuggled against each other. During the day, Grace rarely left Louann’s side. Grace talked, talked, talked, winning affection with her infectious giggle and near-permanent smile. Grace was Louann Stanley’s little baby. She still …
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