Pennsylvania's Democratic Party committee members went through a divisive process of buttonholing, cajoling and promising on Saturday but ultimately could not deliver endorsements in contested primary races for U.S. senator and state attorney general. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala won the most votes for the Attorney General race with 63 percent, short of the 67 percent needed for an endorsement. Katie McGinty, former Chief of Staff for Governor Tom Wolf, came closest to winning endorsement for U.S. Senate with 173 votes, surpassing former U.S. Representative Joe Sestak’s 149 and Braddock Mayor John Fetterman’s 34. The three U.S. Senate candidates hope to unseat incumbent Republican Pat Toomey. The lack of endorsements likely won't have much of an impact on the candidates' campaigns though, according to Terry Madonna, a political analyst at Franklin and Marshall College. “More and more, the state party endorsements don’t have a lot of cachet,” Madonna said. “It’s
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