Two veteran warriors battling to represent the 12th Congressional District appear locked in the closest race in the district in years.
Democratic Rep. John Murtha leads retired Army Lt. Col. William Russell by a little more than 4 percentage points, within the Susquehanna Poll’s 4.9-point margin of error. The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted [...]
CHARLEROI, Pa. — U.S. Rep. John Murtha is calling many of the people who put him in office "rednecks." The news comes one week after Murtha claimed the area is racist, then apologized for that comment.
In explaining his comments about racism, Murtha, D-Johnstown, told WTAE Channel 4 Action News on Monday it’s difficult for many [...]
Rep. John Murtha, a supported of Barack Obama’s presidential bid, apologized Thursday for calling western Pennsylvania "a racist area."
"While we cannot deny that race is a factor in this election, I believe we’ve been able to look beyond race these past few months, and that voters today are concerned with the policy differences of our [...]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sen. Hillary Clinton scored a big victory in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, defeating Sen. Barack Obama in the first showdown between the White House hopefuls in six weeks.
Clinton, D-N.Y., was looking to win a decisive victory in the Keystone State to give a badly needed boost to her faltering campaign against [...]
Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
"I didn’t say it as well as I should have," he said at Ball State University.
As he tried to [...]
Congressman Jack Murtha is one of the most influential powerbrokers in Washington.
According to an estimate by Taxpayers for Common Sense, he’s steered more than $600 million in earmarks to his Pennsylvania district in the past four years and $2 billion since 1992. But what’s been good for Murtha and his district is not always good [...]
