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The day after the April 22nd primaries left us, like many other Pennsylvanians, feeling like cast off one-night-stands, watching the news vans drive off and the reporters cast their collective gaze to the hotter contest down the Appalachian chain.

Tom Knox is the frontrunner in the 2007 Democratic primary and, according to the most recent Keystone poll, the one with the momentum behind him. But like so many other things about him, Knox’s accomplishment is less impressive than it first appears. Relying on nothing more than a wealth of contacts in city and state government, a nationally known campaign team (his media guru was profiled in The New Republic, under the headline “Joe Trippi Reinvents Campaigning”), and more money than God and his opponents put together, his campaign managed to overcome a name recognition deficit by flooding the local airwaves with ads. No doubt this was a risky strategy—how could they be sure that Philadelphians would spend time watching television?