Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi is trying to gather support to change the state’s “winner-takes-all” approach for awarding electoral votes. Instead, he’s suggesting that Pennsylvania dole them out based on which candidate wins each of the 18 congressional districts, with the final two going to the contender with the most votes statewide.

So far, the idea has received support from colleagues of the Delaware County Republican in the state House and from Republican Gov. Tom Corbett. But Democrats, who have carried the state in presidential contests since 1992, said the shift would erode Pennsylvania’s clout.

How would this change things? Consider that President Obama won Pennsylvania by 10 percentage points in 2008. But:

An analysis by the online news service Capitolwire noted that had the proposed distribution process been in place in Pennsylvania in 2008 before the state lost one congressional district due to a population decline in the 2010 census, Mr. Obama would have won only 11 of the state’s 21 votes.

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Contact Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi here to voice your opposition.

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Facts:

1. After the November 2009 elections, the Wake County school board dismantled socio-economic diverse schools and began to implement a neighborhood schools plan that would resegregate schools.
2. Resegregation in schools would be a disaster. It would turn back the clock fifty years with the creation of high poverty, racially isolated schools. The integration plan destroyed by Koch-supported board of education members was used as a model for high achieving, diverse schools throughout the country.
3. This October 2011, Wake Country elections will decide if schools become resegregated. Koch-supported candidates are still pushing for neighborhood schools and to end diversity.
4. The Koch brothers free market, libertarian ideology rests on privatization in society, especially the privatization of education.
5.  The Kochs founded Americans for Prosperity in 2004, and AFP indirectly poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Wake County school board elections and helped jeopardize the diversity policy.

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The leader of a Philadelphia teen “flash mob” that assaulted people at random and provoked the mayor to lecture black youths of personal responsibility has been sentenced to confinement in a juvenile detention facility.

A judge berated the 17-year-old and two other youths Thursday for beating four people and robbing them. The teens admitted their involvement in the July 29 rampage.

“Your actions, behavior, and attitude are appalling and disgusting for civilized society,” Family Court Judge Kevin Dougherty told the teens. “Philadelphia will not be a laughingstock because [of] a few individuals who decide to hunt human beings and laugh about it.”

Destructive flash mobs, in which youths often congregate by texting each other or using other social media, have become a problem for many communities. Philadelphia has witnessed about 10 such incidents in the past two years, with some assaults occurring in broad daylight.

The July 29 attack prompted Democratic Mayor Michael A. Nutter, who is black, to deliver a church sermon in which he told black teens that “you have damaged your own race.” He imposed stricter curfew hours on weekends, beefed-up police patrols and expanded hours at city-operated recreation centers.

Where is Rev. Jesse Jackson when you need him to talk to the black teenagers who are causing so much trouble in the city of brotherly love?

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1. Michele Bachmann,
2. Mitt Romney,
3. Rick Perry

Really…is that so Fox News? Do you think your readers can’t fact check your propaganda? The straw poll actually said it was Michele and Ron who were the leaders.

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Momentum is growing in Congress behind legislation to enact another “repatriation tax holiday” that allows multinational corporations to bring profits held overseas back to the United States and pay tax on them at a rate of only about 5 percent (rather than the normal tax rate 35 – 45% on corporate profits ).  But the economic or fiscal case for doing so remains poor.Moreover, a new tax holiday would increase budget deficits by tens of billions of dollars over the coming decade.   And unlike the 2004 repatriation holiday, which was sold as a “one-time-only” event, a second holiday would send a powerful message to corporations to shift investment and jobs overseas and hold the profits there — until yet another tax holiday is declared. Indeed, enactment of another such tax holiday would further embed the shifting of investment, jobs, and profits overseas as a major tax avoidance strategy for many U.S. multinational corporations.

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