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Radio PA Roundtable – November 4-6, 2016

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, it’s a pre-election primer as we preview some of the key races on your ballot. Excerpts of this week’s show were taken from Radio PA’s 2-hour special “Battleground: Pennsylvania.” You can hear that entire program right here on PAMatters.com.

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Battleground: Pennsylvania – An Election Preview from Radio PA (Part 1)

This is “Battleground: Pennsylvania,” a special 2-hour election preview from Radio PA that examines the candidates and races appearing on the statewide ballot on Tuesday, November 8th.

Hour #1 features interviews with Pennsylvania Attorney General candidates John Rafferty (REP) and Josh Shapiro (DEM), as well as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s campaign rejected numerous requests to take part in the program.

In hour #2, we will be joined by political analyst and pollster Dr. Terry Madonna from F&M College in Lancaster for a top-to-bottom analysis of the statewide ballot. Also, we talk to founding board member Adelaide Kimball from Project Vote Smart to talk about the resources that organization makes available to voters in every state. Learn more about the candidates on your ballot at www.votesmart.org.

Click the audio player below to hear hour #1 of this special two-hour election preview from Radio PA:

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Battleground: Pennsylvania – An Election Preview from Radio PA (Part 2)

This is “Battleground: Pennsylvania,” a special 2-hour election preview from Radio PA that examines the candidates and races appearing on the statewide ballot on Tuesday, November 8th.

Hour #1 featured interviews with Pennsylvania Attorney General candidates John Rafferty (REP) and Josh Shapiro (DEM), as well as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s campaign rejected numerous requests to take part in the program.

In hour #2, we are joined by political analyst and pollster Dr. Terry Madonna from F&M College in Lancaster for a top-to-bottom analysis of the statewide ballot. Also, we talk to founding board member Adelaide Kimball from Project Vote Smart to talk about the resources that organization makes available to voters in every state. Learn more about the candidates on your ballot at www.votesmart.org.

Click the audio player below to hear hour #2 of this special two-hour election preview from Radio PA:

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Battleground: Pennsylvania – Katie McGinty

This is the complete and unedited interview with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty, taped Thursday, October 20th in the Radio PA studios in Harrisburg. Portions of this interview were aired in Radio PA’s election preview special “Battleground: Pennsylvania.”

Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey was invited to take part in the program, but his campaign rejected numerous requests and invitations by Radio PA.

You can also listen to McGinty’s interview with Radio PA from last spring’s primary election. Toomey’s campaign also declined to be interviewed for our election preview special last spring.

Click the audio player below to hear the full McGinty interview from October 20th, 2016:

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Radio PA Roundtable – April 29-May 1, 2016

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, we recap the Pennsylvania primary elections from Tuesday and look ahead to some key matchups in the fall.

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Radio PA Roundtable – April 22-24, 2016

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, we gear up for Tuesday’s primary election by bringing you a recap of the series of interviews conducted with the candidates for the democratic nomination for United States Senate.

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U.S. Senate Candidate Profiles

For those of you who listened to Radio PA’s special “Senate Spotlight: Pennsylvania,” here are the links to the complete and unedited interviews with Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty and John Fetterman. Click on their names below to hear the interviews.

Pennsylvania’s primary election is this Tuesday, April 26th.

Joe Sestak

Katie McGinty

John Fetterman

Radio PA Roundtable – March 11-13, 2016

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, we continue our series of interviews with the candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2016 with former DEP Secretary Katie McGinty.

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U.S. Senate Candidate Profile: Katie McGinty

Radio PA & PAMatters.com present the second in our series of candidate profiles in the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. Today we profile former Pennsylvania DEP Secretary Katie McGinty.

Previously, we presented an interview with former Congressman and Navy Admiral Joe Sestak. You can also listen to that interview in its entirety here on PAMatters.com.

Radio PA has also issued invitations to the campaign for candidate John Fetterman, and we will present that interview as well, should the campaign accept. To date, the Fetterman campaign had not selected a date to schedule that interview.

The Pennsylvania primary election is April 26th.

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Radio PA Roundtable – July 24-26, 2015

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, Governor Tom Wolf names a new Chief-of-Staff after the resignation of Katie McGinty; advice for you if you ever suffer a snake bite; and what’s the latest on those pilot 70MPH speed limit zones in PA?

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