• Vice President Joe Biden will be in Philadelphia today to fundraise for Joe Sestak.
  • Term-limited Democrat Gov. Ed Rendell clarified remarks last week where he said “wackos” and “fruit loops” were taking over the Republican Party. Rendell commented that he considers neither Pat Toomey nor Tom Corbett among those “fruit loops.” He referred to Toomey as a “reasonable” person with whom he disagrees.
  • Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell headlined two fundraisers for Tom Corbett, bringing in an estimated $430,000 from the first, and a similar amount from the second, boosting Corbett’s coffers ahead of next week’s filing deadline.
  • The Foundry at the Heritage Foundation comments on the implications for the school-choice movement, after both Republican and Democrat candidates for Pennsylvania governor have come out in support of school choice program.
  • Sestak remains in the news for confirming earlier this month that he would support Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey’s pension bailout plans for the functionally bankrupt retirement programs.
  • Dan Onorato has released his first campaign ad of the general election in the race for governor against Tom Corbett. The upbeat, positive ad talks up Onorato’s accomplishments in Western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County.
  • In Pennsylvania’s 8th district, the race that’s been dubbed “the rematch” — between former Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick, and incumbent “blue dog” Democrat Pat Murphy — is in a virtual dead heat.