rssPat Toomey, Front-Runner?
Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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This Rasmussen Reports poll on the Pennsylvania Senate primary is dropping some jaws today:
In thinking about the 2010 Election for the United States Senate, suppose you had a choice between Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Arlen Specter. If the election were held today would you vote for Republican Pat Toomey or Democrat Arlen Specter?
48% Toomey
36% Specter
4% Some other candidate
12% Not sure
There’s a much lower (43 percent) Toomey vote against possible Democratic nominee Rep. Joe Sestak, which suggests that there’s a peaking anti-incumbent anger driving down Specter’s numbers. There’s a relatively solid 53-47 approval rating for President Obama (in a state he carried 55-45) but robust 53-42 opposition to the health care “proposed by President Obama and the congressional Democrats.”
To date, Republicans haven’t taken the Toomey candidacy very seriously, and only reluctantly come around to supporting him as their inevitable nominee. One Rasmussen poll isn’t enough to shake that skepticism, but its a start.
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Comment posted August 13, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
From what I know (conversations with colleagues in Harrisburg, Scranton, and elsewhere in the Keystone State), Pennsylvanians have about had it up to the chocks with Arlen. His “flip” to the National Socialist Party in order to escape strong contenders in the Republican Party primary and those millions of Penna. Republicans who are longing to come after him with linoleum knives was a desperation move, no doubt about it.
Like the proverbial rat he is, Arlen Specter has good scrambling skills, and I don't yet count him out.
But there's hope. And thus means that his seat in the Senate won't be going to a RINO upon whom the National Socialist Party can count to suck bong right alongside them in their great dopefest sessions of “Screw the Taxpayer.”
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