Here's a story Jim O'Toole and I did for today on strategizing by Dems and Republicans, tied to the GOPAC summit Downtown. A note buried at the end from GOPAC chair Frank Donatelli underscores the importance of this year's races, especially with redistricting coming up again:

"We are focused as an organization on doing what we can to help elect a Republican state House. We want Corbett to be successful as a governor and to have Republican majorities in the House and Senate I think would make passage of his programs much easier," he said.