Tom Smith (politician)

WASHINGTON -- Democrats retained a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, but Republicans kept their grip on the House, delivering another divided, and highly polarized, Congress. The balance of power was likely to shift by no more than a seat or two,...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania withstood a spending spree by coal-industry millionaire Republican Tom Smith to win a second term Tuesday in a race in which the political scion had been heavily favored. Casey’s victory also cements a...

Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Bob Casey wins a second term in office. Casey won the election against Republican challenger Tom Smith. He held a victory party in Scranton on Tuesday night, where he thanked Pennsylvanians for supporting him once again. "The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Democrats fought Republicans for control of the Senate on Tuesday after a bitter campaign marked by roughly $1 billion in outside spending in competitive races from Virginia to Montana. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who...

The Obama and Romney campaigns turned their attention to Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes this weekend as polls showed the president holding only a slight lead in the state coming into Tuesday’s election. In Franklin County, Pa.,...

Heading into the closing two days of the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama clings to a slim three-point lead over Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, according to the final Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll of the state's likely voters. Polls...

The super PAC striving to keep Senate Democrats in the majority released its Pennsylvania ad Wednesday morning hitting Republican Tom Smith for wanting to "eliminate the Department of Education." The Majority PAC spot is running in the Pittsburgh media...

There's another outside group airing a TV ad in the Pennsylvania Senate race, but this one hits Bob Casey and has local ties. Lehigh County Republican Chairman Wayne Woodman has a super PAC, Fight for the Dream, which will begin this week airing a 30-...

Speakers at the Somerset County Republican Fall Banquet were fired up about coal Thursday and the fate of one of the county's largest industries.   Keynote speaker John Pippy, CEO of the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance, described the "war on coal" as a war...

In the fall of 2011, long before anyone knew who would be U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's Republican opponent, RealClearPolitics' campaign analyst, Sean Trende, predicted in a chat with another reporter that the Pennsylvania Senate race could be 2012's sleeper...

They've set a date! Democrat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and his Republican challenger Tom Smith are scheduled to debate each other at the end of the month. Their campaigns announced their only debate late Friday after weeks of uncertainty over whether the...

On the morning after The Morning Call/Muhlenberg College released a poll showing the margins in the presidential and U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania in the low single digits, a second independent university pollster came out with similar results....