Tom Smith (politician)

The Obama and Romney campaigns turned their attention to Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes this weekend as polls showed the president holding only a slight lead in the state coming into Tuesday’s election. In Franklin County, Pa.,...

Heading into the closing two days of the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama clings to a slim three-point lead over Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, according to the final Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll of the state's likely voters. Polls...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans vigorously pursued their last, longshot chances for taking control of the Senate — Pennsylvania topped their list — as Democrats remained cautiously optimistic that they'd retain their narrow majority...

The super PAC striving to keep Senate Democrats in the majority released its Pennsylvania ad Wednesday morning hitting Republican Tom Smith for wanting to "eliminate the Department of Education." The Majority PAC spot is running in the Pittsburgh media...

There's another outside group airing a TV ad in the Pennsylvania Senate race, but this one hits Bob Casey and has local ties. Lehigh County Republican Chairman Wayne Woodman has a super PAC, Fight for the Dream, which will begin this week airing a 30-...

Speakers at the Somerset County Republican Fall Banquet were fired up about coal Thursday and the fate of one of the county's largest industries.   Keynote speaker John Pippy, CEO of the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance, described the "war on coal" as a war...

In the fall of 2011, long before anyone knew who would be U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's Republican opponent, RealClearPolitics' campaign analyst, Sean Trende, predicted in a chat with another reporter that the Pennsylvania Senate race could be 2012's sleeper...

They've set a date! Democrat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and his Republican challenger Tom Smith are scheduled to debate each other at the end of the month. Their campaigns announced their only debate late Friday after weeks of uncertainty over whether the...

On the morning after The Morning Call/Muhlenberg College released a poll showing the margins in the presidential and U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania in the low single digits, a second independent university pollster came out with similar results....

When Pennsylvanians vote next month they won't have just Barack Obama and Mitt Romney or Bob Casey and Tom Smith to choose between. Libertarians beat back a challenge from the state Republican party, which means their candidate for president and...

Mitt Romney's Pennsylvania operation is shifting five of its 64 state staffers to Ohio to help with early voting there, but the campaign said it is not an indication of their pulling out of the state. "We are not out of Pennsylvania, no intention of...

As public polls last week showed the Pennsylvania Senate beginning to close, Bob Casey wants, and perhaps needs, voters to view Republican Tom Smith has a wealthy, extreme conservative, not a down home, relatable farm boy. So the incumbent Democrat is up...