Toomey/Specter: 10 POINT RACE!!! Toomey Gains Big Time!!!

Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal's Political Diary ^ | March 15,2004 | Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal's Political Diary

[GeneralHavoc]

The following is from OpinionJournal's Political Diary March 15,2004:

Conservative Challenger Gains On Liberal Specter

There is a reason that Pennsylvania GOP Senator Arlen Specter has been spending so much of his $9 million campaign kitty on ads attacking his conservative primary challenger, Rep. Pat Toomey: The April 27 race is surprisingly competitive. A new survey by the Polling Company finds Mr. Specter has only a 47% to 37% lead over Mr. Toomey, a surprisingly low figure for a four-term incumbent. The survey roughly mirrors a Quinnipiac poll last month that found that only 49% of Republicans believe Mr. Specter deserves re-election.

Aware of his reputation as a liberal leaning senator, Mr. Specter has gone on the attack and begun questioning Mr. Toomey's conservative credentials. One ad accused Mr. Toomey of being pro-gambling and against abstinence education. Mr. Toomey says he voted in favor of a bill doubling money for abstinence education, but against a later amendment that would have provided even more funding for the cause. As for the pro-gambling charge, Mr. Toomey says the ad completely distorts a warning he made about state officials "getting addicted to this new source of revenue" if they legalized slot machines at racetracks.

The race has become a classic confrontation between liberal and conservative Republicans. While Mr. Specter is favored, conservative grass-roots activists are effectively targeting Mr. Specter as an obstacle to lower federal spending and tort reform. The race will only heat up between now and next month's primary and should start gathering national media attention.

[GeneralHavoc]

Toomey is going to win this race! He is picking up all the momentum!

[GeneralHavoc]

[BibChr]

And here, Spectre thought the election was a loch!

(Get it? Get it? Ahhhh....)

Dan

[GeneralHavoc]

Haha, I agree BibChr.

Specter is in major trouble, and the more people hear about Toomey the more undecides he wins over!

[dead]

Puns that bad could get you kilt.

[petitfour]

I can't vote in the PA election, but I will pray for Toomey. To win.

[GEC]

ping.

[GeneralHavoc]

PONG!

[conservativecorner]

Does anyone have a donation page for Toomey? TIA!!

[GeneralHavoc]

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[End Times Sentinel]

RINO HUNT, LOCK AND LOAD!!!

 

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[stevio]

GO PAT GO!!

[bmwcyle]

Dear Lord, Please help Toomey to victory in this election. AMEN

[thoughtomator]

It would be wonderful if we could take down Specter. It would send a resounding message to the RINOs that it doesn't matter how entrenched you are, if you betray us we will come after you and toss you out.

Just getting within 10 points puts Toomey in a position where he can claim a lot more votes - the votes of the folks that would vote for him if they thought he had a chance, but previously thought he had no chance.

[Types_with_Fist]

Whoa! Really? The "magic bullet" man might lose in the primary?

[GeneralHavoc]

"It would be wonderful if we could take down Specter. It would send a resounding message to the RINOs that it doesn't matter how entrenched you are, if you betray us we will come after you and toss you out."

That's exactly it, Thoughtomator. Undecided voters will flock to Toomey, as well as those who are only supporting Arlen because they think Toomey is fifty points out.

[ZULU]

I hope you're right, but those figures look pretty far apart still.

Specter is another RINO, right up there with Snowe and Chaffee.

[Clean_Sweep]

He had my vote before he decided to run. I want Spector OUT!

[Cicero]

Good news. Specter is a disaster. And what's worse, he is a RINO by choice, not a RINO in a marginal state where no conservative Republican could get elected. He has gotten bad enough that if I were a resident there I'd consider voting for the Democrat just to get him out of office. Toomey offers a much better choice than that.

[Bushbacker]

If Toomey is nominated, he will lose to Joe Hoeffel in November and the GOP will lose the seat.

hHoeffel captured the 13th Congressional district after 100
years of GOP dominance and could not be defeated. He voluntarily
gave up the safe seat to run for seantor.

Hoeffel has mastered the trick of
being an ACLU Democrat but appearing to be a centrist. He will not beat Specter with that
ploy but he will beat Toomey.