[Dane]

I can understand your concerns. I share some of them also, but in my big picture, Hoeffel would be a bigger disaster than Specter, and I can also understand your disappointment at the closeness of last nights primary results.

Is my big picture perfect, no. But whose big picture or life is?

[Dales]

Hoeffel would be a bigger disaster than Specter

And this is the crux of why you and I are planning on voting in different directions.

I think we agree that Hoeffel will be a much worse Senator than Specter will.

I also think we agree that Specter will be a disaster as Judiciary committee chairman.

You see the damage from the first as being more than the damage from the second, and as such will vote Specter. I see the latter as more damaging than the former, and unless we are looking at Chairman Leahy, will vote against Specter.

At least that's my thinking for now. We'll see how the campaign plays out.