I saw Santorum on TV tonight endorsing Specter

[JVS]

Does this mean that Specter is officially scared? Endorsements from the Jr. Senator to the Sr Senator seem a bit pathetic to me.

[themann1086]

1. If Santorum is endorsing Specter

then either Santorum is trying to be more moderate, or Specter is trying to be more right. one or the other. or both.

[MikeG]

2. He's been endorsing him for weeks.

[RPM]

3. GOP is scared

If Specter loses, they'll lose the seat to Hoeffel(sp?); I surmise they are pulling out the guns so that their worst fears are not realized.

Oh yeah, not to mention that a good photo-op with * and Santorum (thanks to Dan Savage, I cant type that without laughing) will help Arlen look more like the jack-booted thug that sells so well in Alaba..., I mean Central Pennsylvania.

[Momof1]

4. As a resident of central PA

I know it is freaking horrible around here. BUT we just got Rendell, and this state still went for Gore in 2000.

I don't understand why more democrats don't win around here, you would think that with Penn State students they could sway the elections one way or the other, but in recent years there have been students that run for the Council, and you wouldn't believe of the number of votes they get, 1,000 votes and less in some cases.

But don't count all of central PA off, there have been so many job losses, factories closing. That usually hurts the incumbent.

A township close to here, before the war, actually wrote a resolution opposing the war. It surprised the shit out of me.

[JVS]

5. A problem for college students is that they often live hours away from...

their official place of residence. They usually move each year and it is easier to keep their parents' house as the place of residence. This makes voting difficult because they'd need an absentee ballot and often don't know how to go about getting one. The only reason I got to vote in 2000 was because one of the local politicians saw my mom and asked if everyone in the family was voting. He said to go to the local Democratic office and they would get me a ballot.

[RPM]

6. Student voting

I am of the opinion that students should vote in the place where they go to college. It's easier for the student to get to the polls, and they might even have some impact on the local matter - Made a big difference in Ann Arbor in the '60s when they got student backed candidates on the town council. Pissed townies off something good, but forced them to recognize the students as a relevant part of the town (aside from mere commercial creatures).

As a side note - When i voted for Clinton in 96, it was in the HUB building at Penn State, i lovely Central Pennsylvania.





Edited for spelling

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. Haines Twonship? That was repealled once residents got wind of it

Haines Township repeals anti-war resolution

By Mike Joseph

[e-mail]


AARONSBURG - Facing an angry crowd that overflowed their meeting room, the elected leaders of a small Penns Valley municipality Thursday repealed an anti-war resolution that a week ago claimed international attention.

The Haines Township supervisors -- who four months ago voted 2-0 to adopt the resolution opposing a pre-emptive U.S. military strike against Iraq -- voted 3-0 Thursday night to rescind it.

The township residents said they were angry not so much because the resolution opposed Bush administration policy, but because the measure was adopted without asking township residents to discuss it yet stood as though it broadly represented sentiment.

"I object to that resolution," rural Aaronsburg resident Roger Guisewite told the supervisors, "and I would like to see it either removed or amended to say that that is the opinion of the three board members ... rather than the general public."

more: http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/5284510.htm

[Momof1]

9. You are right, no one protested till 4 months afterward

When it was picked up, and... I will snip a few paragraphs from the article you supplied.

Snip:
The resolution passed on Oct. 17 said that killing "innocent Middle Eastern people, including Muslims, will widen the gorge between people of different races and religions rather than nurturing a union of humanity here and abroad."....

Last week, a three-member Swiss television news crew based in Washington, DC., spent two days in Aaronsburg talking to supervisors and residents, attracting 80 people to a diner for interviews and filing a report about how the Bush administration's threatened war against Iraq has divided the small community.

...Residents Thursday night said the Iraq issue has indeed split them. "I think we're separating our community the same way we're separating our country too," one man said.

End Snip:

The article is from Feb. No one had much to say about it, until they started getting publicity.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi RPM!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: