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Toomey would have been a disaster in the general, would have handed the Dems another seat in the Senate,and would have made PA that much tougher to carry in November in the Presidential election. That's politcal reality... I know it doesn't jive with your ideological desires, but that's reality.

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No matter now many times you say this, it's not going to come true.

"Toomey couldn't win in November" line is one of the biggest bunk statements of the year.

He's from a district that went Gore-Clinton-Clinton.
He bumped a 3-term incumbent Democrat in that district.
Santorum bumped an incumbent statewide in 1994.

Facts: Specter has barely edged underfunded candidates in the past.

The % chance of GOP holding the seat were roughly the same no matter who the nominee was.

Josh,

You can believe what you want to believe. I will disagree. Toomey has no track record state wide, and is and not any day soon will be a Santorum.

Toomey was destined to be chewed and spit out like nobodies business in the general particularly in Eastern Pa/Philadelphia region. I know you don't believe it, don't want to believe it, and are going to go to your grave believing otherwise, but thats reality.

Its happened time and time again in this state and will continue to. Toomey was another Fisher, pure and simple in the general.

You can disagree, which is your right. But carrying a district V carrying a state in a presidential election year are not one in the same.

I commend you for sticking to your guy, but he lost. I know the wound is still fresh, and any criticism of him will be like salt upon that wound, but the reality is he did lose. To believe a canidate that at best would have eeked out his primary, by running as to the right of the sitting Senator was going to have a chance in hell in a general election where Dems outnumber Republicans state wide and that Bush didn't carry in '00 for being to conservative is flat out denial.

The democratic canidate is a Liberal, and a pretty hard core one at that. You put a Liberal V Conservative in this state, particularly if they are both hard core and you wind up with moderates largely staying home and those that do go to the polls break democratic... Toomey was toast state wide.