G. Terry Madonna

ALDAN, Delaware County — In Gloria Bayers’ backyard, the take-out tacos and burritos are steaming in a chafing dish, the soft pretzels are under plastic on a catering tray, and in the unseasonably hot sun of an early fall afternoon,......

WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, who in 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the Senate offended Republicans and Democrats in almost equal measure with maverick votes and a frank cockiness that finally ended his career in politics, died Sunday at his...

By the time the dust finally settled on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama carried Pennsylvania by 5 percentage points over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. So, just how correct were Pennsylvania’s army of pollsters in predicting the final...

PHILADELPHIA -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced....

As the old saying goes, the only poll that matters is the one taken on Election Day.   But with 39 days before voters head to the voting booths, several other polls are being released — and experts expect more will be published in the coming...

Is it possible for Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith to be trailing incumbent Democrat Bob Casey by just six points while Mitt Romney is down by 12 against Barack Obama in Pennsylvania? That's what the latest Quinnipiac University survey of likely...

From Clara Ritger: Rep. Greg Vitali, D-Delaware, wants environmental programs to receive more funding in Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed 2012-2013 budget. At a Capitol news conference earlier today, Vitali said the money for the Department of...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state House put its stamp -- such as it was -- on the proposed 2012-13 state budget yesterday, increasing funding for block grants that pay for all-day kindergarten; conservation programs and public libraries....

Gov. Tom Corbett's popularity has taken a dip in a new Keystone Poll out this week. Thirty-nine percent of respondents to the survey of 412 registered voters have a strongly or somewhat unfavorable opinion of the freshman Republican, up from......

Nearly 18 months into his first term, Gov. Tom Corbett has hit the political equivalent of a glass ceiling: He’s yet to crack the all-important 50 percent mark in his approval ratings among state voters. And with legislative Republicans set......

Pennsylvania voters may get a say in who will face President Barack Obama in November. Although Mitt Romney is the front-runner for the Republican nomination there are a lot of delegates left before anyone reaches the magic number of 1,140, said Joseph...

About 10 percent of Somerset County's 2,200 write-in votes in the primary were phony names, mostly of fictitious cartoon and movie characters. The county's computation board took twice as much time as anticipated to certify the votes, partly because of...