BUTLER, Pa. – In a campaign office on the first floor of a Sons of Italy lodge, Republican Mike Kelly spoke confidently to a crowd of locals about his race for the U.S. Congress.
Outside, a lone Joe Sestak supporter marched up and down with a handmade sign. Generating little attention, he left before Kelly’s rally began.
If you want a perfect picture of a potential wave election, Main Street here paints it for you.
Forty-odd miles north of Pittsburgh, Butler’s majestic county courthouse is across the street from a well-kept monument to fallen Civil War soldiers....












People forget that it was the 8 years of the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney regime that put America where it is now economically and many seem to be eager to put incompetence back in charge in November.