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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...

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) Tuesday compared his likely primary challenger, Pat Toomey, to the AIG executives who took home big bonuses as the government was bailing out their failing company. “If you followed Mr. Toomey's ideas, you would be where the 401(k)'s are — at about half the value,” Specter said during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “When you take a look at his record, he's been contribut[ing] to the problem,” Specter said of Toomey, a former congressman and Wall Street trader. “And now he wants a promotion; he wants a bonus like those AIG guys.”

GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE NIGHTMARE Old people are not dying fast enough for RINO Specter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzDHzS_tKQ&feature=channel_page