Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Matt Smith defeated D. Raja for Pennsylvania State Senate with 53% of the vote.
Matt Smith bear hugged supporters and feverishly pumped hit arms in the air moments after learning he had won election to the Pennsylvania State Senate. The normally subdued 3-term state representative showed more emotion than usual after a hard-fought battle against fellow Mt. Lebanon resident D. Raja. Smith takes over the seat formerly held by John Pippy. The district wraps around the South Hills of Pittsburgh from Peters Township up to Findlay. “When you have a message that resonates, then that will trump money every day of the week,” Smith said about being outspent 3-to-1 on the airwaves. “The message we have is resonating with people.” Smith, standing with his wife, Eileen, and three young children, Delaney, Emerson and Jameson, …
Democrats dominate statewide races for treasurer, attorney general and auditor general.
LIVE 2012 ELECTION RESULTS 2,417,029 Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won a second term Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan. As he did in 2008, Obama also carried Pennsylvania, gaining the state's 20 electoral votes. In Pennsylvania's 2012 race for U.S. Senate, incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. of Scranton also won re-election, drawing 53 percent of the vote and defeating Republican coal executive and Tea Party founder Tom Smith of Shelocta. With 99 percent of votes recorded in races for three state offices: In the congressional race in the newly redesigned 12th District, …
The Republican presidential candidate makes a final campaign stop in Moon before heading back to Boston to await results.
In one of his final appearances of the presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney landed this afternoon in Moon Township, exiting a plane at the Atlantic Aviation hangar before leaving in a motorcade. The stop was brief—Romney did not speak before stepping into an SUV motorcade of five vehicles. After walking out of his plane, he waved to a crowd of cheering supporters packed outside of the runway gate. Romney campaign spokesman Bradley White said the GOP candidate would be traveling in the region this afternoon, but he said the schedule was kept private. Romney's stay in the Pittsburgh area lasted just more than an hour—his plane left Pittsburgh International Airport just after 4 p.m. Romney stopped briefly at a Green Tree …
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court extends deadline for absentee ballots to be submitted from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. after elections officials receive more requests than expected.
Over and over, visitors to the Allegheny County Election Division heard the same refrain Tuesday morning: “Elections division, how may I help you?” "Elections division, please hold." From their headquarters Downtown, that constant jangle was the only way elections division workers could gauge that Tuesday was shaping up to be a busy Election Day around Allegheny County, Division Manager Mark Wolosik said. “You hear the phones ringing off the hook,” he said. The most-frequent questions? Most callers asked to confirm if they were registered to vote or where their polling places were located, he said. By mid-morning, division workers had fielded enough questions to prompt Wolosik to issue the office’s prediction: It would be a brisk voting …
Patch editors blogged through Election Day and brought you updates, anecdotes and results from election and political sources around Western Pennsylvania. Feel free to revisit and comment on the daylong conversation, too.
Join our live blog as Patch editors from Western Pennsylvania share updates, anecdotes and voting results from polling places and pundits in and near your neighborhood. Feel free, too, to join the conversation. Long lines? Crowded polls? Last-minute glitches? Tell us about your experiences when you cast your vote today.
The Republican presidential nominee will stop Tuesday afternoon at Atlantic Aviation at Pittsburgh International Airport.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will come to Moon Township today, making a last-minute campaign stop in the final hours of election day. The former Massachusetts governor will be at the Atlantic Aviation hangar on Horizon Drive at 2:55 p.m. today for a rally. Few details were available on the campaign stop. His running mate Paul Ryan also made an appearance in October at the Moon Township hangar. Campaign spokesman Bradley White said the speech at the hangar will be open to media only. Romney will be leaving Atlantic Aviation in a motorcade. White said his schedule in Pittsburgh is not public. Check back with Patch for coverage.
The candidates and issues most important to Sewickley voters in 2012.
As we look ahead to tomorrow's elections, Sewickley Patch is devoted to bringing you the information you need about every race in town. Here are the candidates and issues we'll be covering as Election Day draws near. The new 12th Congressional District saw its first battle in April, when incumbent Rep. Mark Critz won the Democratic nomination in a close primary that pitted him against incumbent Rep. Jason Altmire. After a bruising and expensive primary battle against Altmire of McCandless, Critz, 50, of Johnstown, Cambria County, faces local Republican lawyer Keith Rothfus of Sewickley, for the chance to represent the Sewickley Valley and much of Western Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. The redrawn map of Pennsylvania's …
Friday, November 2, 2012
Search our interactive campaign contribution database and see whose campaign your friends and neighborhood are supporting.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
A look at which organizations have endorsed candidates for the Pennsylvania 37th senate district.
Which local and national organizations have thrown their support behind candidates for the Pennsylvania's 37th senate district? Before casting your vote on Nov. 6, check out our list of candidate endorsements, as provided by both the D. Raja and Matt Smith campaigns. Candidate: Matt Smith, visit his Patch candidate profile. Who is he: Mt. Lebanon-area state representative seeking election for the state's 37th senate district. Endorsements include: The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 91 Humane PA The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Friends of South Fayette Conservation Voters of PA Clean Water Action PennEnvironment The Sierra Club Candidate: D. Raja, visit his Patch candidate profile. Who is he: The Mt. …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Search our interactive campaign contribution database and see whose campaign your friends and neighborhood are supporting.
Which of your closest friends has made a campaign contribution to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney? Wondering how many people you know who've dipped into their pockets to keep President Barack Obama in the White House for another four years? Hankering to know which candidate has outpaced the other in raising funds from around the Sewickley Valley before the Nov. 6 election? Patch has created an interactive database to place that information at your fingertips. Now you can see how much money your neighbors from Sewickley, Leetsdale, Edgeworth and neighboring communities in the Quaker Valley School District are donating to the presidential campaigns—and to which candidate they’re writing their checks. We’ve also included communities …
Charles Addleman
5:02 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
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