Posted on 05/10/2010 1:54:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
One week before the May 18 primary in Pennsylvania, two new polls show Rep. Joe Sestak opening a lead on Sen. Arlen Specter in their fight for the Democratic Senate nomination.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll of likely Democratic primary voters has Mr. Sestak up 47 percent to 42 percent, with 8 percent undecided. Mr. Sestak is holding a similar margin in a Muhlenberg College/Morning Call tracking poll.
Is Mr. Specter, 80, about to join Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Utah Sen. Bob Bennett as the latest victim of 2010's backlash against "moderate" candidates?
In February, the five-term senator held a commanding 51 percent to 36 percent lead over Mr. Sestak and seemed to hold all the keys to winning his first Democratic Party nomination since switching from the Republican Party in 2009. He'd been endorsed by President Obama and Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, and his campaign was getting cash and support from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
But Mr. Sestak, a two-term member of the U.S. Congress and a former admiral running as "the real Democrat," has steadily closed the gap on Mr. Specter, and last week edged into the lead for the first time.
The 58-year-old former vice admiral, who plowed into the race without the support of the state or national Democratic Party establishment, seems to be running a more politically astute campaign.
Taking a page out of Republican Marco Rubio's playbook in Florida, Mr. Sestak's ads prominently feature a 2004 campaign trail photo of Mr. Specter and former President George W. Bush, arm-in-arm. Mr. Sestak used the endorsement of a veterans group last week to fire back at Mr. Specter, who had questioned the former career military man's service in his ads
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I can’t wait to hand write a letter to this sorry POS congratulating him on his loss.
So if Spector can’t get the Dem nod, I wouldn’t put it past him to run as an Independent.
explain THAT one to your new democrat pals, arlen.
nobody likes a lair, the truth is it’s Democrats? Who knew that would happen.
We need to get, can’t be counted on, Crist in the same trap.
We’ll see.
I hope Sphincter goes into permanent retirement.
Amen to that!
He’ll probably claim he’s the Tea Party candidate.
I hope an pray that this disgusting little worm gets what’s coming to him in this primary.
Whichever way it goes, we have to hope that the Dem candidate goes down in flames in November.
Running as an “I” wouldn’t be surprising.
In the immortal words of Jackie Gleason: How sweet it is!
Absolutely.
Now that he is a Democrat he can claim that the election was stolen from him! Democrats love that stuff.
Ditto!
+1 Internet for you!
Well after being perfectly happy with Republican primary voters helping send him back to Washington for decades he decided “HE WOULD NOT LET THEM DECIDE HIS FATE”... So, now he gets end his career by having DEMOCRATIC primary voters tell him to bugger off instead...
See you later Arlen.
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