WaPo - Judicial Races Now Rife With Politics -

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~snip~ BUTLER, Pa. -- It's always packed for Wing Night at American Legion Post 117, and in the crowd Seamus McCaffery saw the building blocks of his electoral success.

The local sheriff, the union guys, the daughter of a veteran who said, "I like your commercial about being a Marine." And the beefy biker in black leather, with the long gray ponytail and ZZ Top beard.

"You think the big politicians are going to ask for his vote?" scoffed McCaffery, himself a biker. "They'd be afraid of him!"

McCaffery makes no bones about being a politician: He's got a snazzy Web site, an unrelenting statewide travel schedule and more than $1 million in his campaign treasury.

He's also a judge. And the job he covets is an elected spot on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701318_pf.html