Pennsylvania Voters Hit The Polls
Pennsylvania voters will be awarding a hotly contested open seat on the state Supreme Court and filling a half-dozen vacancies on the Superior and Commonwealth courts. Polls open statewide at 7 a.m. Tuesday. The Election Day... [read full story]
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Republicans gain majority on PA Supreme Court
Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican judge from Western Pennsylvania, prevailed in the Philadelphia suburbs yesterday to claim a decisive win in the hard-fought battle for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court. Melvin's victory shifts...
Republicans have reason to crow about Tuesday
By Tom Infield Inquirer Staff Writer Was it only a year ago that, on the day after an election, Republican State Chairman Robert A. Gleason Jr. said he had never felt so glum about GOP prospects in Pennsylvania? Yesterday,...
Supreme Court Fundraising
From the inbox yesterday: PHILADELPHIA (November 3, 2009) – Today is Election Day in Pennsylvania. The top of the ballot features a contest to fill one vacancy on the state Supreme Court. The candidates are Democrat Jack...
VA, NJ and NY weren't the only states with elections yesterday [Important wins elsewhere]
Those high-profile gubernatorial and congressional races in Virginia, New Jersey and New York got most of the headlines, but the genuinely revealing contests may well have been some of the down-ballot contests held in Maine,...
As New Jersey goes, so goes Pennsylvania
Not really. However, the Republicans did win a statewide race in Pennsylvania yesterday. Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican, defeated Jack Panella, a Democrat, to win a 10-year term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday. The...
Melvin wins Supreme Court race (an overlooked GOP win - hands control of supreme court to GOP)
HARRISBURG - Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican judge from Western Pennsylvania, prevailed in the Philadelphia suburbs yesterday to claim a decisive win in the hard-fought battle for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court. Melvin's...
Some Post-Election Thoughts.
File This One Under ... ... Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: If you say that 2009 will be the dry run for the 2010 mid-terms often enough, you'll get exactly what you expected. Republicans had a pretty good night nationwide and here...
"Orie Melvin bucks odds to win Pa. Supreme Court seat"
"Orie Melvin bucks odds to win Pa. Supreme Court seat": This article appears today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today that "Melvin wins Supreme Court race." The Patriot-News of Harrisburg,...
John Baer: In court races, it looks like the GOP cashed in on the low turnout
PENNSYLVANIA voters yesterday gamely reasserted their right to elect statewide judges, an act akin to playing a political lottery. Fifteen candidates for seven spots on three state courts were on the ballot in a municipal...
Melvin wins Supreme Court race
HARRISBURG - Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican judge from Western Pennsylvania, prevailed in the Philadelphia suburbs yesterday to claim a decisive win in the hard-fought battle for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court.
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