LOOKS LIKE PENNSYLVANIA HAS ALL THE BEST TV ADS THIS WEEK! THE CHOKER VOTED AGAINST STEM CELL RESEARCH

I hope you already had a chance to see Joe Sestak's powerful response to Republicrook Curt Weldon's lame attempt at a Rovian swiftboat smear (below). Pennsylvania is shaping up incredibly well for Team Blue this year, with statewide races (Governor and U.S. Senator) way, way ahead for Democrats and half a dozen GOP-head House seats seriously in play. Aside from the landslide shaping up for Admiral Sestak against the contemptible and prison-bound Weldon, it also looks like a double-digit landslide in PA-10 for another ex-Navy man, Chris Carney. Chris is battling Don "The Choker" Sherwood, whose campaign has been marked by one disastrous miscalculation after another.

While Sherwood was carrying on a 5 or 6 year adulterous affair with a woman young enough to be his granddaughter, an affair that ended when the police were called in after Sherwood beat her up, he was also consistently voting against the interests of his constituents at the behest of Big Business and the religious right. An independent group called Majority Action decided to make a little TV spot about how Sherwood voted to kill stem cell research (which is heavily supported by Pennsylvania residents). This ad, like the Joe Sestak ad, is the kind of powerful push back strong, clear-minded Democrats are making all over the country. Democrats will sweep the House on November 7 not because of Hastert's coverup of the Foley sexual predatory scandals but because Democrats have the answers and the ability to communicate them to the voters.