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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.
Bu bai Spector. This is the price you pay for your betrayal. We will be working on your retirement package next, because neither you nor any other member of congress deserve a paycheck for life.
So has Toomey officially thrown his hat into the ring for 2010?
ROTFLMAO
Priceless!
Hell, I’ve been posting the Einhorn connection here for years. Capital murder, Holly Maddox’s dessicated corpse found in his room, and Specter gets him bailed out on $40,000, put up by other stooges, and he escapes to Europe! I hate Specter and everything he stands for! That’s HATE!
Specter will (probably for money) side many times with Democrats between now and the election realizing this is his last chance at the money train.
“Too late. The damage is done. To h*ll with the PA GOP.”
They should have gotten rid of his sorry ass after he pulled that “Scottish Law” BS during Billy Bentpecker’s impeachment.
Gonna be interesting to see who the Scotsman brings into PA to shore up his image with the GOP base.
He’s probably clueless enough to think the likes of McKook and Flimsy Graham will help him.
I would love to see a poll of his favorables among FReepers. I imagine his approval rating here is 0.
2010 will be a completely different race. The last time Specter ran, the GOP was worried about losing a seat and the majority in the Senate, so Santorum and the GOP went all out out back him, since they believed he would be the best candidate to beat the Democrat. Protecting a majority is no longer an issue, so there’s no reason to back Specter over Toomey.
It looks like here is another one that is going to the Dems.
Last week.
A political party, any political party, supports its incumbents. That’s a fact of like that we will have to deal with.
Now, support for Specter may be more tepid from the party because of the reasons you list, but the national party is surely going to back Specter.
I expect that Specter will close the gap a little by persuading Democrats to register as Republicans and cross over. I don’t expect that it will be enough, though, as it actually involves the work of downloading a registration form, completing it and mailing it in.
I like your optimism. It’s the first believable rationale for optimism I’ve read in quite a while. Most of the “let’s go get em” stuff doesn’t do it for me.
How many Dems are going to cross over when the governor’s race is going on at the same time? I assume someone from the east will go against Onaroto.
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Funny you should refer to Crist as Sorry Charlie. He spoke at an event here in Orange County (CA) and sounded good, until he mentioned offshore oil drilling. This was during the “drill here, drill now, pay less” time and he refused to say he’d open up Florida’s coastal waters to domestic production. He lost the crowd there and never got them back. It was a typical example of all of us getting our hopes up, only to see them dashed when his true colors came out. It truly was a sorry performance on his part.
In reality, Ed Rendell can put Lassie in the Senate, no matter how many points "ahead" Toomey is 13 months out. Suppose Toomey wins the primary, which I hope to Zeus is a closed primary.
He then has to win an election in a state where stealing elections for the democrat in the "urban" areas is an art form. So, don't get excited now, hang on and fight like hell.
Look what happened to Tedisco in NY, to Coleman, to Rossi in Washington ... when it's close ... they steal every time.
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