And unlike Rick Santorum, he's won a state-wide election more than once (he served two terms).
Like other members of his family, Taft was a Republican for the purposes of state-wide elections.
There were no state-wide elections in 2009.
The court is composed of seven justices who are elected in state-wide, non-partisan elections.
It was the first time that Thompson had lost a state-wide election.
For decades, the party had little difficulty in winning local and state-wide elections, with a significant number of Democrats running unopposed in certain years.
They selected three insects as candidates, and mailed ballots to all schools for a state-wide election.
In addition to the $12,000 for the primary, state law now permits individual donors to give $25,000 for state-wide general elections.
Philadelphia is the Democratic stronghold of the state, often delivering huge margins for the Democrats in state-wide elections.
Now, at the approach of the first state-wide election since the end of the war, they were working hard to make up for the lost years.