PA: Support for Sen. Arlen Specter drops in poll [crashing and burning] [the end of a traitor?]

The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. ^ | 2009-06-26 | Laura Vecsey

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. Arlen Specter continues to pick up support from Democratic party leaders across Pennsylvania. However, a new poll indicates that the five-term incumbent has not convinced a majority of Pennsylvania voters that he should be re-elected.

According to a new Franklin & Marshall poll released Thursday, only 28 percent of registered voters in Pennsylvania think Specter should be re-elected.

That number is down from 40 percent in March, a month before Specter's "conversion" to the Democratic Party. Back then, roughly half the voters in each party said that Specter was doing an excellent or good job in the Senate.

The poll also showed that Specter's "excellent" or "good" job approval rating declined from 52 percent in March to 34 percent in June.

[rabscuttle385]

[FlingWingFlyer]

The voters, on both sides, are going to send Sphinter home “to spend more time with the family.”

[pray4liberty]

Spector’s doing a good job, all right—stabbing his voters in the back—and the press wonders why the people are mad? Shame shame...

[mainepatsfan]

I wouldn’t be shocked at all if the Dems in PA tossed him overboard in their primary. Now that’d be ironic.

[fwdude]

This can’t happen too fast or too severely. Make an example of him and all RINO’s.

[The Sons of Liberty]

I hope he is sent off to oblivion, never to be heard from again!

[hoosier hick]

Hope he enjoys unemployment as much as millions of other Americans....

hh

[Cicero]

This was predictable. Nobody likes a traitor. The Dems will use him up and throw him away, just like they did with Jumping Jim Jeffords.

[counterpunch]

The fact that Specter has picked up endorsements from all the same Democrats who were campaigning against him 5 years ago exposes just how shallow their partisan politics really are.

[ABQHispConservative]

I kinda wish his number would be steady until after the primaries. Then they can plummet.

[Pikachu_Dad]

ROFLOL. He is no

[devane617]

Could not happen to a nicer guy.

[Landru]

Buh-bye, Arlen.

[Bullish]

Spector is one guy that’s too stupid to serve in either party.

Wow, and that’s really stupid!

[hinckley buzzard]

Spectre is gong to learn the same bitter lesson that Jumping Jim Jeffords learned--nobody likes a traitor-- on either side. Fork time. He's done.

[MurrietaMadman]

Pennsylvanians don't like to hear things like "I don't need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I," by their political leaders.

At least not stated that plainly.

[TCats]

One can only hope they take this creaking, brain adled turncoat to the woodshed. He was a lousy Republican and, amazing as it may seem, would be a lousy Dem. He is just lousy, period.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Here’s hoping he’s soon joined by that insufferable leftist Mike Castle.

[freespirited]

I hear he’s very well thought of in Scotland.

[hoosiermama]

Maybe he cold stay in his new best friends Irish cottage for a while!