Mark McCraken

BELLEFONTE -- Glenn Thompson's new headquarters is so empty and long -- it extends nearly half a football field from its back wall to front door -- the Republican congressional candidate might hear an echo if he yelled inside of it. The only desks in the downtown Bellefonte office are mostly pushed into a corner, sitting next to freshly opened cardboard boxes and piles of Styrofoam packing.

Fewer than a 100 days before the general election, he's still moving in.

It's odd to see any congressional candidate, much less a heavily favored Republican in the rural 5th Congressional District, moving into an office so near the election. The late relocation might even be interpreted as a warning sign that the candidate is ill-prepared for the fall.