PA GOP chairman's next goal: Corralling the state for Bush (PUKE ALERT)

[goobergunch]

I saw this in my morning Inquirer, and it made me want to :puke:.

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By Tom Infield and Nancy Petersen
Inquirer Staff Writers

LAURENCE KESTERSON / Inquirer

Alan P. Novak, sporting cowboy boots, in his West Chester office. The state’s GOP chairman since 1996, Novak has modernized the party machinery and helped get millions in funding to lure votes for Republicans.

For a guy who practices law among the brick sidewalks and leafy canopies of West Chester, Alan P. Novak sure spends a lot of his time under the wide skies of Texas.

He wears map-of-Texas ties and has so many pairs of pointy-toed, big-heeled boots that he says he "stopped counting at 40." And recently he bought a 120-acre ranch near Fort Worth, or Foat Wuth, as he is learning to say it.

The Republican chairman of Pennsylvania, Novak, 53, had not set a wing-tipped shoe in Texas until the spring of 1999, when he went with then-Gov. Tom Ridge and other Keystone Staters to meet the Texas governor, George W. Bush.

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[LeftCoast]

1. What do you think the odds are of PA voting (R) ?

[goobergunch]

2. I think PA will be a fairly good bellwether

It's 50-50 right now, but if * continues to slide, our chances will improve.

[jiacinto]

3. PA will go Democratic if push comes to shove

The suburbs around Philadelphia have been leaving the GOP for years. Rendell swept the counties surrounding Philadelphia. As long as the Democratic candidate is reasonably competetive the state will not vote Republican.

That doesn't mean that it's a guarantee--it isn't, and the Democrats will have to work to win it. But I see it landing in the Dem corner in 2004 at the end of the day as long as our candidate is reasonable competetive. Now if our candidate sucks then that's a totally different matter altogether.