• Pat Toomey will be spending his afternoon in Philadelphia today to deliver a policy speech attacking Joe Sestak for his role in “aggravating” the housing crisis in 2007 and 2008 via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Battle ‘10 will have more on this as it develops.
  • Salena Zito at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a worthwhile, in-depth look at the House races across Pennsylvania. Isaac Wood of the University of Virginia’s Center for American Politics is quoted as saying, ”In the 2010 midterm elections for the House, as goes Pennsylvania, so goes the nation.”
  • More on the book that was thrown at President Obama in Philly on Sunday. Apparently it was thrown not by a detractor, but from an “overzealous supporter” and author who hoped the president would read his work.
  • NJ.com looks at Chris Christie’s appearance with Tom Corbett earlier this week as part of a nationwide tour in support of GOP candidates as a sign he could be amassing support for a presidential run.
  • The Pocono Record takes a look at the gubernatorial contest from the standpoint of Tom Corbett and Dan Onorato’s public utterances on tax policy.
  • In further evidence of the lighting turnaround in political events since the president’s election and the demolition of the Republican Party, Joe Biden was in Pittsburgh this week, quipping that, “reports of the death of the Democratic Party are greatly exaggerated.” Time will tell.