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  • Democrats now outnumber Republicans in Pennsylvania by almost 1.2 million. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has received threats at several of its Pennsylvania offices and is asking labor unions to help provide volunteer security at 27 of the offices between now and Election Day, including six in Philadelphia.
  • The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Building at 16th and Callowhill Streets was evacuated yesterday morning when a white, powdery substance was found in a third-floor office. The substance turned out to be foot powder. D'oh. (Via Sarah)
  • The Defense Department contracts various corporations to provide services in Iraq, from security detail to U.S. ambassadors and government officials, to rebuilding roads, power grids, schools, and general infrastructure. But last year the role of private firms in Iraq was questioned after Blackwater USA, a private security firm, was accused of firing openly on civilians in Baghdad on multiple occasions. We look now at more recent news from the defense contracting sector and how it has provoked considerable controversy.

  • Chelsea Clinton was at Penn yesterday, stumping for her Mom, and said we should expect to see her and her family a lot in the near future. Which sounds like a threat to us. Beware, Philadelphians! They're coming! Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies! (BTW, in a related story, voter interest is surging in Pennsylvania suburbs.)
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