Posted on 07/22/2009 5:22:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's 2010 reelection lead over Republican challenger Pat Toomey has shrunk to a tie with 45 percent for Specter and 44 percent for Toomey, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. And voters say 49 - 40 percent that Sen. Specter does not deserve reelection.
President Barack Obama gets a 56 - 37 percent job approval, compared to 62 - 31 percent in a May 28 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. By a bare 50 - 43 percent majority, voters approve of the President's handling of the economy.
Specter, first elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1980 but who switched to the Democratic Party earlier this year, holds a commanding 55 - 23 percent lead over U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak in the race for the Democratic nomination. On the Republican side Toomey buries Peg Luksik 47 - 6 percent.
On May 4, Specter led Toomey 53 - 33 percent in a trial heat; his favorable unfavorable ratio among Pennsylvania voters was 52 - 34 percent and voters said 49 - 41 percent he deserved reelection. In a May 28 Quinnipiac University poll, Specter led Toomey 46 - 37 percent.
"Sen. Arlen Specter's 20-point lead over former Congressman Pat Toomey less than three months ago has virtually vanished," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"Voters see Sen. Specter much less favorably than they once did and are net negative about giving him a sixth term in the U.S. Senate. Independent voters have shifted narrowly to Toomey 46 - 42 percent and say 53 - 35 percent that Specter does not deserve reelection."
(Excerpt) Read more at quinnipiac.edu ...
Good riddance to the last of the liberal republicans!!
Impossible. I was told here months ago that Toomey couldn’t win and that we needed Tom Ridge or some other progressive in order to beat Specter.
Wish that was a true statement. But we do have Collins and Snowe, the boobsey twins from the northeast.
To say nothing of ole linseed.
This is shaping into such a case of poetic justice....
McCain, Graham, the twin witches from Maine and a few others are still out there. Sphincter is not the last, not by a long shot.
Yes we can. Time for change in America.
I consider them moderates. Specter is a liberal.
Doesn’t deserve “another” term? He didn’t deserve the LAST one. Go Toomey!
Maybe you can find yet another party to bolt to, Sphincter. Good riddance ... Door ... ass ... Buh-bye. You won’t be missed.
Murtha in jail and Specter out of the Senate-I could only
dream!
Hmmmmm, it’s a bit early to say so, but Frank Lautenberg doesn’t have any older brothers that live in PA, does he?
I don’t give a rats behind whether a Republican wins if he is a liberal(Ridge). To define yourself as a Republican or Democrat is so mindless. I am a conservative. I vote for conservatives. In the past I’ve voted for the lesser of 2 evils(Specter) and what has that gotten me? I also voted for McCain and had he won we would probably have gotten cap and trade and socialized medicine anyway. Keep the liberals in the Democratic Party.
Let’s hope Obama goes out on the campaign trail for Specter as he promised.
Obama can't get Specter any more than he already has. OTOH, with the buyer's remorse starting to bubble up, Obama may actually drive voters toward Toomey.
Did Romney’s butt buddy, American Conservative Union hack, David Keene come out and support his long time ACU approved, supported, Specter?
It’s going to be fun to watch that hack, conservative duping Keene support ..........who?
The ACU, “Liberal Front and Conservative Duping for 25 Years”>
I like it, ilgipper.
Turning their own phrase on them.
'Zactly my point.
2010 is going to be huge for GOP (I hope and think). Senator Toomey, my my my that sure sounds nice!!!!
About damn time. I still want Sestak to defeat him in the primary, that way we can get back my Congressional district AND have an R senator.
Go Toomey!
I rather expect Bush the Younger to campaign for Specter again.
Philadelphia is one of ACORN’s largest, most productive vote-manufacturing plants. You can’t win a state-wide election in Pennsylvania unless you stop them. Period, end of story.
You are right. As much as i dislike the Acorn organization and as laughable as their members are, they are a group conservatives can no longer ignore.
Well, well, well........what have we here? If a rat can’t win in PA they are in deep poo poo.
Precisely ... imaginary voters don’t answer polls. By the time ACORN is done — not to mention standard Large City Dem vote fraud, Specter probably will have added 2-5 points to his tally.
I guess it is going to boil down to who is leading in the governor's race. Last I heard, Tom Corbett (our guy) held a safe lead over any probable opponents from RINO country. Do any of yunz know the current skinny?
.. a Mr Reaper is here about your political career. Shall I show him in?"
Think back to the 2006 Santorum/Casey election. Casey’s lead in the closing days of the race was between 4-7 points. He ended up winning by 19. If that’s not massive vote fraud, nothing is.
If we don’t have a strategy to confront this head-on and stop these animals, they’re going to kill this country. In a few short years, they’ll be imposing their will on our children.
No other issue matters if we no longer have free elections. As long as ACORN exists and has its way, we don’t.
Wait! I thought that we were told that Specter would be unbeatable as a Democrat! (You just knew the Dems would scr3w him over by not supporting him) Time to retire, Arlen.
But, but, John Cornyn thinks conservatives are unelectable!!! How can he be wrong?
“Specter...holds a commanding 55 - 23 percent lead over U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak in the race for the Democratic nomination.”
I hope that holds up. Sestak would be a tougher opponent for Toomey.
0bama will send ACORN to remedy this.You know the dems... only every vote FOR THEM, counts.
That’s a nice poll, but Specter will lose the Dem primary.
I wonder if Bush will be campaigning for his good buddy Shpinter again.
Sestak is a retired Admiral and would be very hadr to beat in PA.
I don’t know... check out the credentials of the guy John Kerry beat in his last Senate race.
That guy should have won hands down.
Spectre (incorrect spelling intentional) looks like he is DOA even as a D. Instead of retiring respectfully when it was obvious he was going to lose the R nomination he tried to once again put himself above all, and ran the the D’s.
If the D’s are smart, they will run someone other than Spectre next year. Spectre completely alienated all R voters in the state at this point, the D’s who crossed the isle and voted for him when he was an R now view him as a turncoat and many of them won’t vote for him, and the middle folks he won’t get enough of.
Best Spectre can hope for is a razor thin win in the general, but the conservatives will by and large be rabidly behind Toomey, and Spectre tied himself to Fauxbama in his last acts pushing through his stimulus, and as we know that’s worked out great.
Given that I don’t think Spectre can win PA no matter what letter is beside his name at this point.
That may be and I respect that but he was a Clinton plant in our district and has voted far left on every piec of legislation so far, including porkulus, cap and tax and now healthcare. We are not seeing the promised jobs, only the runaway costs. Those are the facts that will be pinned on him.
Would be funny for conservatives to co-opt that chant and have it played on the evening news. The Otards’ heads will explode.
They may have to ship Walter Mondale to PA.
The last? McCain, Snowe and Collins are still in.
Kick that low down dirty traitor out. Under the new health care plan, page 425 will assist him and guide him on how to die. Oh wait, that’s right, he has the cushy plan the others have, that only applies to us.
However some Pa posters here may think voting against Specter in the Dem primary is worth it to teach Specter a lesson for being an annoyance to conservatives for years.
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