 "The Washington Post" blog "The Fix" also named the website as the best Pennsylvania political blog in 2011.PoliticsPA was founded on October 22, 2001

The website was created by the Publius Group, a New Jersey-based media organization who, at the time operated five similar state-based political websites, including PoliticsNJ, PoliticsVT, and PoliticsNY.Ceisler Jubelirer, a Pennsylvania-based media relations group, including Larry Ceisler and Jeff Jubelirer, purchased the website from the Publius Group in January 2007.