By: Jonathan Tamari, Sean Collins Walsh, and Anna Orso
It was another huge year in Pennsylvania politics — which seems to always be the case these days.
The races for governor and Congress drew national attention, the state House flipped to the Democrats for the first time in more than a decade, and several political stars started to rise. Meanwhile Republicans said goodbye to their most electorally successful statewide figure in recent years, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, as the party moved in a different direction.