Posted on 04/24/2009 10:06:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter badly trails primary challenger Patrick J. Toomey, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll 13 months before GOP voters will choose their Senate nominee.
The survey, taken of 490 likely Republican voters on April 21, had Toomey leading Specter by 21 percentage points, 51 percent to 30 percent. Forty-two percent of respondents said that they had either a "very favorable" or "somewhat favorable" impression of Specter, compared to 55 percent of Republicans who said they had "somewhat unfavorable" or "very unfavorable" feelings about the senator.
The comparable numbers for Toomey, a former House member from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, were 66 percent favorable and 19 percent unfavorable.
The 2010 primary, which will be held in May of that year, is a rematch of a 2004 primary that Specter won by 51 percent to 49 percent. Toomey, the former president of the fiscally conservative Club for Growth, has sharply criticized Specter for supporting some of President Obama's economic policies.
The only Democrat thus far who has declared a Senate campaign is Joe Torsella, who headed the National Constitution Center on Philadelphia's Independence Mall and who lost a 2004 Democratic House primary to current 13th District Democratic Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz.
CQ Politics presently rates the Pennsylvania Senate race as No Clear Favorite.
RINO down. Good news.
WOOHOO!!
Jolly good.
Spectre (mispelling intentional) is DOA in the PA republican Primary this time, no doubt. That doesn’t mean that he won’t wind up running as an indy in the general and winning. However he definately will not win the republican primary, his support of the porkulus was the last straw.
Its great to see how Republicans in Pennsylvania have not forgotten Specter’s treason
Go home and don’t go in front of a camera again, Specter.
Too late. The damage is done. To h*ll with the PA GOP.
Waaaay too early to get excited.
So then, will the national GOP endorse Toomey’s Democratic opponent in the general?
The powers that be will circle the wagons around the more valuable rinos.
Which ones are expendible which ones are savable.
So far, McCain has a so so challenge.
Specter has a serious challenge.
Crist has NOBODY serious challenging him.
Snow? is she up yet?
NOW which democrats are vulnerable in the senate?
Dodd is tapping into his tarp recipient buddies.
It is not enough to eliminate rinos from the primaries, we have to challenge CREDIBLY the democrat incumbants.
I’m in Pennsy and I support Toomey. I supported him that last time he ran. Nothing against Toomey, whom I do respect and think would/will do a great job for us, but I’d sooner cast a write-in ballot for my cat over Specter.
don’t forget the national committee came out and said they were supporting him. of course,that may be to try and keep him from completely selling out.
Good news for our PA Freepers...now if WE could do something with Harkin here in IA!!
Great news. Let’s hope that that Arlen doesn’t snatch victory from the jaws of defeat as he did last time (with the administration’s help, of course).
EXCELLENT news!
Here’s hoping that it survives the inevitable infusion of funds to Specter’s campaign by the RNSC and the slew of endorsements from Mike Steele and on down the line of “official” Republicans.
Terry was a great guy and excellent conservative politician. He was a sad loss. I think that his brother Tony is still around, helped him write some political songs.
Marco Rubio is running in the primary against Crist.
Snow? is she up yet?
Nope. Not until 2012.
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