bizjournals.com - 11/26/2008
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A new poll released Wednesday finds not enough Pennsylvania voters know who Chris Matthews is, and that he would be at a distinct disadvantage in a race against incumbent U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Matthews, best known as host of the MSNBC political commentary show "Hardball" has not officially ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/28/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Chris Matthews is in. FiveThirtyEight has been hearing
this for some time, but it took a trip...
to Georgia among the Georgia-runoff-congregated and well-connected Obama organizer throng to confirm. According to multiple sources, who confirmed the Tip ...
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Chris Matthews Running For Pennsylvania Senate 2010
rasmussenreports.com - 12/4/2008
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rasmussenreports.com —
Republican Senator Arlen Specter is potentially vulnerable in
his 2010 bid for re-election. A Rasmussen Reports telephone...
survey of Pennsylvania voters finds Specter leading MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews by just three percentage points, 46% to 43%, in ...
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Election 2010: Pennsylvania Senate Election
themarathonblog.com - 12/1/2008
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themarathonblog.com —
If Chris Matthews is seriously considering a run
for Arlen Specter’s Senate seat, he shouldn’t be on...
the air right now. One of the reasons millions of people rely on NBC as a news source is that it’s objective and driven by a fidelity to ...
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If Matthews Is Mulling A Senate Run, He Shouldn’t Be On ...
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Chris Matthews Meets With PA Dems to Discuss Anti-Specter Senate Campaign
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Sadly for Matthews, the Pittsburgh Business Times reports he'd have an uphill climb against Specter in the polls (and the liberal GOPer has a big campaign treasury): ...
Chris Matthews Running For Pennsylvania Senate 2010
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... and well-connected Obama organizer throng to confirm. According to multiple sources, who confirmed the Tip O'Neill staffer-cum-MSNBC host has negotiated with veteran Obama staffers to enlist in his campaign, Chris Matthews will run for United States Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010. Matthews, 62, will run as a Democrat. Arlen Specter, the aging Republican incumbent, will be 80 if he chooses to run for re-election. Preliminary public polling suggests Matthews would start at a deficit, in part because Matthews' name recognition is ...
Matthews Hiring Staff To Run Against Specter?
Firedoglake —
... That's the rumor anyway, says Nate Silver.
Polling puts Specter ahead by quite a bit in the polls, but that's probably not going to be Matthews' biggest problem.
With the Democrats just shy of 60 votes in the Senate needed to prevent a filibuster, Specter is in position to be a key vote in the passage of critical legislation. He'll be able to barter his cloture vote for, say, Employee Free Choice or Healthcare in exchange for the the support of key Democratic constituencies that Matthews would need to win in that state.
There were ...
Will Chris Matthews Be The Democratic Candidate Against Snarlin' Arlen In PA?
DownWithTyranny! —
... for a run after meeting with Obama operatives who are working on the Jim Martin Senate campaign in Georgia. Political junkies all know who Chris Matthews is, but not that many people have ever even heard of MSNBC, let alone Matthews, to give him some kind of advantage in an election. In fact, early polling-- basically a measure of familiarity-- shows that the far better known Specter would wipe him out. "Sixty percent of those polled said they didn't know enough about Matthews to form an opinion of him, while Specter has a 62 percent approval rating." ...
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... delayed. Russian and Iranian officials have given different dates for the start-up. Iran's foreign minister said last year the plant would launch in mid-2008.
Russia has already delivered nuclear fuel under a $1 billion contract to build the Bushehr plant on the Gulf coast in southwest Iran. Russia has blamed previous delays on problems with receiving payment from Iran.
++++++++and, wanna bet some of the fuel is then diverted to Natanz and the enrichment centrifuges?
New poll finds Specter far ahead of MSNBC's Matthews in possible Senate matchup ...
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New poll finds Specter far ahead of MSNBC's Matthews in possible Senate matchup
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firedoglake.com 11/28/2008 —
That's the rumor anyway, says Nate Silver .
Polling puts Specter ahead by quite a bit in the polls , but that's probably not going to be Matthews' biggest problem.
With the Democrats just shy of 60 votes in the Senate needed to prevent a ...
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huffingtonpost.com 11/28/2008 — FiveThirtyEight's Sean Quinn reports that MSNBC host Chris Matthews is, in fact, running for Senate in Pennsylvania:
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