For a couple weeks our readers have weighed in on which Erie Times-News columnists they look forward to reading. Some 41% of P&T poll respondents said they never miss a column by Managing Editor Pat Howard. A quarter said they’ll read Ed Matthews column regularly, and 15% don’t miss columns by Liz Allen, Kevin Cuneo, or Dave Richards.

Labor Day was the unofficial beginning of the fall political campaign, although we have seen political ads on TV all summer here in Erie. The Washington pols love Erie because it’s so cheap to buy time here, and in one spot break on Monday morning (9/20), the entire pod was filled with ads referring to either Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper or her opponent Mike Kelly, except for one PSA. Not all these ads are directly from either campaign, but many come from the Congressional committees or private political action groups.

PA-3 is bound to get tons of money infused into this campaign because Dahlkemper is considered to be vulnerable as the first Democrat to win in 2008 after decades of Republican representation in this area. So six more weeks of accusation and counter-accusation.

Are the ads having any impact on the way you will vote?

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