election

Are voters ready for the primary election?
Local News, News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Apr 01, 2021
Pennsylvania’s primary election is coming May 18, and voters will want to make sure they’re ready. Lisa Pratt, McKean County director of elections, sa...
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Stop the steal, for real this time
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 29, 2021
Well, the principled stand Democrats took against Congress trying to overturn duly certified elections lasted all of a month or two. After rightly exc...
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Dems shouldn’t overrule Iowa vote
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 27, 2021
A Democratic congressional candidate from Iowa who lost a close election last year is hoping that the House will overturn the state-certified result. ...
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Work to reform vote-by-mail
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 24, 2021
The future of mail-in voting continues to be debated in the Pennsylvania Legislature, where some Republicans already are proposing new restrictions or...
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Many offices up for election in May primary
Local News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Feb 24, 2021
Four county row offices, all school boards, and offices in each municipality will be up for election in the May primary. The official notice of electi...
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Politics of election changes
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Feb 16, 2021
As the House impeachment managers made their case that former President Donald Trump made blatantly false statements about a stolen election for the p...
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Toomey, Casey vote to find Trump guilty
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RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Feb 15, 2021
Both Pennsylvania senators voted guilty in Saturday’s impeachment vote. Despite the support of U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., the...
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Don’t quit on GOP
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 08, 2021
After losing a national election, it’s natural that a political party goes through a period of soul-searching and internal turmoil. The Republican Par...
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The Flight 93 presidency
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 16, 2021
President Donald Trump finally did what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested — he plowed his plane into the g...
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Trump’s disgusting coda
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 09, 2021
There’s a reason we expect presidents of the United States to say that they support the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump has never committed t...
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A call for peace in our nation
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 09, 2021
Death and destruction did not stop Congress from its mission to certify the election of the next president of the United States. Shell-shocked by what...
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Thompson votes against certification of electoral votes
Local News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Jan 09, 2021
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson voted against certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral votes from the 2020 election. Thompson, R-Pa., spoke against t...
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Another needless Harrisburg mudfest
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 07, 2021
What happened in Harrisburg on Tuesday didn’t have to happen. The question of who exactly won the 45th District seat in the Pennsylvania Senate is not...
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Relief checks and the suburbs
Opinion, Сolumns
CONOR SEN, Tribune News Service 
Dec 24, 2020
Last month’s election brought an electoral realignment, with Georgia and Arizona flipping to Democrats on the back of a strong showing in inner and ou...
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GOP, move past Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN SIGLE 
Dec 17, 2020
HARRISBURG (TNS) — It’s decision time for GOP leaders. Will they continue to support Donald Trump, or will they move past him? They’ve faced this deci...
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End of polling as we know it?
Opinion, Сolumns
DOUG SCHWARTZ, Tribune News Service 
Dec 14, 2020
Donald Trump was not the first presidential candidate to perform notably better on election day than pre-election polling had predicted. Ronald Reagan...
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The glory of Trump’s judges
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 12, 2020
One of President Donald Trump’s foremost achievements has been to erect a formidable obstacle to his own post-election legal challenges. The federal j...
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