Results of the 2010 Senate Election in Pennsylvania.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/live-blogging-election-night-2/?src=mtwt&twt=mnytimes

The Republican  Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has defeated the Democrat Joe Sestak in his bid for the Senate, adding one of the nation’s closest and highest-profile contests to the Republican column.

Mr. Sestak who defeated had battled the White House during the Democratic primary, with his being the challenger that eventually ousted the incumbent Democratic senator Arlen Specter against the wishes of President Obama. The come-from-behind victory in the primary earned him the nickname of the “comeback kid” in Pennsylvania, and Mr. Obama eventually campaigned hard for him.

Despite coming back strong in the last few weeks against Mr. Toomey, Mr. Sestak was unable to repeat his performance during the general election. Mr. Toomey’s victory means the seat that Mr. Specter flipped from Republican to Democratic when he changed parties will now revert back.



It is also a defeat for the Democratic turnout machines in the state, which had hoped that a million-person edge in Democratic voter registration would help the party defeat Mr. Toomey in a close race. But many of those voters did not turn out, and conservative Toomey edged out liberal Sestak.

Projections and Polls

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/forecasts/senate/pennsylvania

Out of all of the projections and polls, Pat Toomey seems to posess a large lead with an estimated 97.1%, with Joe Sestak trails far behind with a meager 2.1%.

Campaign Finances: Pat Toomey

As of October 13, 2010, Pat Toomey has raised $14,208,900, spent $12,743,800, and has $2,074,410  on hand to spend.

All Data Found From http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/senate/pennsylvania

Campaign Finances: Joe Sestak

As of October 13, 2010, Joe Sestak has raised $7,516,650, spent $10,185,100, and has $1,657,770 on hand to spend on his campaign.


All Data Found From http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/senate/pennsylvania

Pat Toomey on Veterans

Pat is fully committed to making sure our soldiers and our veterans always come first.  Our veterans and soldiers risk their lives to keep our country safe and protect our freedom; they deserve the best in return.  When Pat was in Congress, he voted to make sure our veterans and their families had the resources and services they needed, including educational, counseling, and employment aid.  As your senator, Pat will commit all the resources needed to provide the personnel, training, intelligence, and equipment required to support the missions necessary to protecting our national security and our soldiers’ safety.  He will dedicate the same level of priority and support to the families of our volunteer active regulars and citizen soldiers.

Pat will make passing the Military Voting Protection Act a priority in the U.S. Senate.  This legislation will make sure our soldiers’ votes are counted in our elections.  Right now, many soldiers stationed overseas have trouble requesting absentee ballots, and have trouble submitting those ballots on time.  The Military Voting Protection Act will require the Department of Defense to lay out clear procedures for making sure our soldiers’ votes are counted.

America is the greatest country in the world and we will continue to be great if we remember that our strength and security come from our soldiers who fight to preserve our freedom.

Pat Toomey on Energy and the Environment

Pat believes that protecting our environment is critically important. But he also knows it is possible to harness America’s natural resources without doing harm to it. For example, Pat voted in the House of Representatives to allow drilling in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Pat also supports allowing Americans to drill for oil in the Outer Continental Shelf and to develop the vast oil shale reserves in America’s western states. Other sources of energy include natural gas in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale and the production of nuclear power. The Marcellus Shale is the largest unconventional natural gas reserve in the world and nuclear power is a low-carbon form of energy production that has been proven to be safe, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly.
These policy changes alone would go a long way towards lowering energy prices and achieving the goal of energy independence.

At the same time, Pat opposes policies that will make energy more expensive and cost Americans jobs. For this reason, he is against raising gas taxes and he opposes the recent cap-and-trade legislation that places an onerous tax on energy and, studies show, will cost thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania.

As a U.S. senator, Pat will fight for legislation that expands America’s energy independence without harming the environment, lowers the cost of energy, and protects American jobs and businesses.

Pat Toomey on Economy

http://www.toomeyforsenate.com/content/jobs-and-economy

http://www.toomeyforsenate.com/content/taxes

Instead of encouraging businesses to hire new employees, Washington is threatening new and heavy costs and burdens on businesses. If these policies are enacted, Pennsylvania businesses won’t be able to hire new employees and may even be forced to lay off workers to survive. Instead, the government should be making it less expensive and easier for businesses to hire people. It can do this by cutting taxes and decreasing regulation. For example, if we rescind the stimulus and cut both employees’ and employers’ payroll taxes instead, every worker would see an immediate increase in their take home pay and it would be less expensive for businesses to hire new workers. If we eliminated the tax on capital gains and lowered the tax on businesses, it would make U.S. companies more competitive, and lead to major job growth.

Pat supports lower marginal income tax rates for all Americans, cutting the tax on capital gains investment, and cutting income taxes on American businesses - which suffer from the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. As a congressman, Pat never voted for a tax increase and fought for lower taxes for all Americans. In the Senate, he will fight for the lower taxes that are integral to our economic freedom and the economic prosperity this country deserves.