Salena Zito is a political analyst, reporter and editorial page columnist. She has also reported on Pennsylvania politics for The Weekly Standard. A board member of the Center for Media & Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Salena Zito honed her skills working on the campaigns of George H.W. Bush, Senator Rick Santorum, Bush2000, Bush-Cheney 2004 served on the senate staff of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Salena Zito has interviewed one on one Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director General Hayden, Homeland Security Director Chertoff, Attorney General Gonzales and First Lady Laura Bush. Zito spends a third of her time on the road interviewing legislators as well as current policy makers. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 20 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Sun, 20 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Dave Betras is known in "The Valley" for his colorful language and his political antics and drama. Last Wednesday, however, when Vice President Joe Biden visited a local industrial park, Betras was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/05/20/bidens_words_fall_on_deaf_ears_in_ohio 792efd55-1b31-4976-98e6-b86e6c3d79ee Sun, 20 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner says the country is at odds with Washington lawmakers on the economy and people will see the evidence in the November election. "The American people will vote their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/05/15/election_will_be_all_about_economy_house_speaker_says a88de1bf-06ac-4c12-b99b-364a7af10bd1 Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT CANTON, Ohio-Rudy is the quintessential average white guy, right down to his last name. "It literally is Guy," he said, laughing at the irony. Born in New Eagle and raised in Charleroi in Pennsylvania's Monongahela... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/05/13/the_average_white_guy_vote 63d163b1-35be-43cb-a725-94fc1667ae43 Sun, 13 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT LISBON, Ohio - The two-lane Lincoln Highway passes sparkling creeks, tree-lined valleys, coal-mine entrances and mom-and-pop motel lots filled with the muddy trucks of shale-industry workers, on its way to this eastern... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/05/06/ohio_pa_house_races_impact_obama 74af06cf-49c0-4e96-ad6b-c8d328cb4d8b Sun, 06 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT SOUTH PARK, PA-John Opfar sat in the front row of a short riser at Consol Energy's South Park R&D facility just before Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to a makeshift stage. Opfar, 31, is a safety... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/29/the_jacksonianjeffersonian_vote ba334a9d-16ee-427a-9ca3-366456810113 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:18:00 GMT ELYRIA, Ohio- Knocked off message for a second week by messy Secret Service and GSA scandals, President Obama on Wednesday tried to salvage things with a jobs rally among handpicked supporters in this Northeast Ohio... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/23/ohio_tepid_toward_obama_on_jobs 2cbcb5d2-4921-4bcd-835f-33f194c2a99e Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:36:00 GMT BEDFORD, Pa. - Judy's Motel is a cheery gem, a classic motor lodge just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the Bedford Village historic district. Its red-brick exterior with bright red, green and yellow Pennsylvania... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/15/main_street_women_think_for_themselves 1b8cc03f-9b26-431f-896f-afd11b901241 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT As the White House scrambled Thursday to prevent "mommy wars" damage done by a Democratic advisor, one expert cautioned that politicians need to learn to communicate with women voters, who factor strongly in this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/14/mommy_wars_a_trigger_issue_with_women c335ae37-c18f-42bf-a6ec-0d71f98f7f95 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.- Mitt Romney stood in a closet-sized room just before taking the stage where an old sawdust mill once sat, the nearby Endless Mountains framing his silhouette. "I don't want to make... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/08/exceptionalism_is_key_for_mitt 2e291d06-6b36-48e4-ac4d-c56ce4b0407c Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT HARRISBURG - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney considers Pennsylvania a key swing state for the fall presidential election and is certain he will win here, he told the Tribune-Review in an exclusive interview... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/05/romney_confident_hell_win_pennsylvania_in_fall_election acbfac81-3028-4d75-ac00-88fbcc1b847c Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:29:00 GMT GETTYSBURG– The owner of Tommy Gilbert’s Hobby Shop expects summer’s tourist season to be impacted by what he calls an “alarming” rise in gasoline prices. “It’s been a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/04/01/its_the_economy_mister_president 3819031c-279f-4dc9-890b-0bbf5a545328 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Less than a month before the Republican presidential primary in Pennsylvania, some experts warn that Rick Santorum faces a second humiliating defeat in a state he represented for sixteen years in Washington D.C. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/03/29/primary_contest_may_end_before_pennsylvania 51586f7d-51cc-49c9-bda0-1bdcb85fd338 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:23:00 GMT VAN METER, Pa. -- Unless you happen upon the chunk of coal marking where 239 men died in the old Darr Mine, now along the Great Allegheny Passageway trail, you’d never know you passed over one of the worst U.S.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/03/25/obamas_coal_problem_in_battleground_states fe5ece1b-a4ec-42f5-a101-f2441fb689a4 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has earned the right to take on President Obama in November. "It is time to get behind the nominee," Bush told the Tribune-Review on Wednesday... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2012/03/22/jeb_bush_its_time_to_support_romney f13e9a1d-6793-4a7b-b257-755ae45ec40c Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT