Posted on 02/12/2009 6:06:58 PM PST by malkee
Pennsylvania voters are "sharply divided" over whether U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter should be reelected, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
Forty-three percent of voters polled by Quinnipiac University said they did not think Specter deserves to be reelected, compared to 40 percent who said he was entitled to keep his job.
But 56 percent of voters said they approved of the job Specter is doing. That approval rating goes up to 62 percent among Democrats, higher than the Republican support rate of 55 percent, the poll found.
Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said Specter's approval rating may be tied to his support of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. Specter is one of three Republican Senators who supports the plan, Richards notes.
"But Specter has always been politically controversial and has needed votes from both parties to stay in office," he added.
Specter, who turns 79 on Thursday, is the longest-serving senator in Pennsylvania history. He is currently in his fifth term. He has battled cancer since first being diagnosed in 2005.
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he is senilr, let him die in peace
FLAME AWAY...I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ANYMORE
Haha.. senile senator....senilr!
Would you hope Hitler would have died before he killed more? Of course. Was I hoping Satan would have called Specter “home” before now? Of course. Unfortunately he is still alive and plaguing PA!
It is said that every “Specter” eventually meets his “James Bond”
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Yup it does. They are either Union Greedy or brain dead.
What kind of cancer. Some are more aggressive then others.
62 percent of Democrats are for Spickter? Well then he’s a Dimwit.
Let’s save him the trouble of actually looking like anything else.
OUT WITH THE TRASH!
Not all of us voted for Specter. He was almost kicked out in the last primary.
We can thank Bush and even Santorum....Rik, how could you????.... that Spink is still senator
Almost only counts in horseshoes.
I’m not feeling much conflict: time for him to go.
Has anyone called Scotland?
Pennsylvania went overwhelmingly for the zero. Why shouldn’t they re-elect someone who licks the royal boots?
The bottom line is that the people are getting what they want . . . and, frankly, what they deserve.
There are many in PA that don't support him.
PA wouldn't be bad if we could chop off the corners.
I told Spector (letter, emailed and phone) I would mortgage my house and max out my credit cards and donate it all to any Republican who runs against him in 2010.
I got an automated response thanking me for my ‘support.’
Spector will be relagated to the brown underwear skid mark wing of political losers.
Headline = THIS IS SOOO TYPICAL OF PA!!!
FLAME AWAY...I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ANYMORE
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As a transplant who is living here, I have to agree. These people are all dead from the neck up.
Why are they supporting that guy? Oh, well, same reason Maine supported the Traitor Sisters, I suppose.
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