and you are going to RAISE me ERIE PA 
???Please.
I'm not really a jerk, I'm just bustin' your chops ;=)
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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Don’t forget Murtha. He’s their little toady.
My county was solid red too. I think sometimes Johnstown is kinda like Area 51...a black hole; a cosmic vacuum...something has to explain Murtha.
We are fine here as well...as long as nothing else ‘big’ topples over. A huge tree was down this evening near where I work. The wind ‘loosened’ it. Who knew...loose trees?
Yes we do...but we represent our state so well :)
I saw the FRPac thread earlier...we (PA) will need east and west conventions JUST LIKE California!!!
You also have to look at the fact that Murtha was reelected by these same people. Uncanny and my husbands family is in both of their districts. One would never know this was the same state that hailed Tom Ridge as govenor.
The thing is, Ridge is/was very liberal on social stances. Ridge is pro-abortion. Specter is elected statewide; Murtha...I just can’t explain why Johnstown keeps sending him back...see my cosmic black hole references above.
The primary numbers favor an ouster.
Obama carried the soccermom’s and social liberals (yuppies) in Bucks and Montgomery County this time. They went for Bush in 2000 and 2004. Most other counties went as predicted.
Pa. needs to start running some Amish candidates...would be a ton better than the bumperheads now representing Pa.
That being said I voted for Toomey.
I plan to run. Please prepare the donations. ;-)
PA has a strong conservative streak outside of the 2 big cities. I’ve also met some of ill informed, gun owning, pro life folks who voted for “zero” because their 401k took a hit. Sad and selfish morons.
People keep asking what is wrong with PA. Its a social experiment gone wrong. They wonder why PA is moving from conservative to liberal. Well, ever since they made pensions tax-free here, the state is literally going (blue) gray! An older population naturally sees a liberal i.e., nanny state platform as more attractive. The sad thing is this same older population used to be our GOP base. Another example of using the tax code for social engineering and getting unintended consequences. When will they learn?
Murtha also said you pennsylvanians aren’t too bright.
even people who aren’t too bright don’t usually like to be told so.
Hey - I’m from NY. NY has been a lost cause for years.
But I live right on the border with PA, and with a pretty conservative section of PA too.
It wasn’t just saddening watching PA go blue - but they turned blue even the politicians were telling they were stupid!
It’s like watching a woman stick with her abusive boyfriend.
good grief...make that “even when the politicians were telling them they were stupid”
time to go to bed!
Call me brain dead. I live adjacent to Murtha’s district, and have a republican congressman. I’m just telling you how it is.
I'll agree to that, so long as the bastard promises to die soon.....VERY soon.
Yep, that would describe my brother-in-law and his extremely lefty wife. They live in that area.
NO wonder PA hasn’t elected a President since 1856. The people are “not up to it.”
and you are going to RAISE me ERIE PA ???Please.
I'm not really a jerk, I'm just bustin' your chops ;=)
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