The Larry Kane Report

Terry Madonna, Pennsylvania’s premiere pollster, will release his Keystone Daily News poll on the Mayor’s race, probably on Thursday. Madonna is a perfectionist who understands that this poll is a critical one that will tell candidate’s whether their strategies are working.

I can tell you that all the campaigns are tense, nervous, riddled with anxiety at the six week mark.

So far, the strategy has been fascinating.

Bob Brady is accentuating his great sense of bringing people together, his experience in healing and creating alliances, and his row house roots.

Dwight Evans, the city’s longtime advocate, insisting that he will have to declare war on crime. With the murder rate so high, Evans has a good issue.

Chaka Fattah is plugging his experience at the state and federal level, while dramatically declaring that he will deal with the social issues facing the city.

Tom Knox says he IS buying City Hall so he can turn it back to the people. Knox says he in independent enough for the job.

Michael Nutter has a unique strategy – he is running against John Street, proof, he believes that he is an innovator who has stood up to eight years of arrogance.

Will Nutter’s bold campaign bring him up in the polls? Can Evans make a breakthrough? Is Bob Brady ready to launch his long-awaited ad push?

Will Tom Knox go negative?

Is Chaka Fattah ready to be more aggressive against his competitors?

When Terry Madonna’s F and M Keystone Poll hits on Thursday, it may change the entire course of this campaign. My forecast: a tightening race, with less than six weeks left. The poll, as I said, should be released on Thursday.

Today (Tuesday) is the six week mark. I sense that the race is anybodys to win. The people are starting to focus.

The only thing missing in this race is the hint of impropriety.

Is that next?

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It is a continuing nightmare of the western world – a revolutionary regime holds foreign citizens as hostages. It is happening again, with demonic parallels to the 1979-1980 Iranian takeover, torture and attempts at blackmail, at our embassy in Tehran.

This time, with 15 captured British sailors, it is the same script. The sailors are detained because they allegedly crossed into Iran’s waters. A normal government would have lodged a protest, let the sailors go, and moved on. This is not a normal regime.

What makes the script so interesting is that it all also repeats the actual beginning of the embassy takeover in 1979 – students throwing rocks and starting small fires outside the American embassy, before taking it over. The Iranian government is once again standing by and allowing all this to happen.

The difference this time is that its Great Britain, a member of the European family. This episode will no doubt harden European support of sanctions against the leaders of Iran, who are living in a mind set accentuated by dictatorship, fear and intolerance. But don’t be surprised if the Iranian government allows the students to storm the British Embassy.
Iran is governed by a President whose mind is filled with hate and whose regime thrives on fomenting terror.

Can you imagine Iran with a nuclear arsenal?

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