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New polling in Pennsylvania shows broad and deep dissatisfaction with Senator Arlen Specter, who is up for re-election in the blue-trending Commonwealth in 2010.
Asked whether they think Specter, a Philadelphia Republican, has done his job well enough to win re-election or whether they’d prefer a "new person" in that job, registered voters by a 53-38 percent margin said it’s time to give someone else a chance, according to the poll by Susquehanna Polling and Research. Eight percent were undecided.
These are terrible numbers for an incumbent 20 months from his re-elect vote. Pollster James Lee of Susquehanna Polling and Research is brutally frank about Arlen’s chances:
If the election were held today, "in a two-person race, Specter is toast" if his challenger is a credible candidate, Lee said.
Arlen’s own party is less happy with him than Pennsylvania Democrats are:
Among registered Republicans, 66 percent favored a new senator and 26 percent backed Specter. The margin of error on that question was plus or minus 5.9 percentage points.
Almost half of registered Democrats (49 percent) favored Specter over someone new (42 percent.) The margin of error was 5 percentage points, Lee said.
Atrios has a message for former Congressman and Club for Growth Chairman Pat Toomey, who almost caught Arlen in a hard-fought 2004 GOP primary:
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I hope we can field a credible challenger. It looks like the Republican effort to undermine Specter for his stimulus vote is working. Way to go Republicans!!
Toomey came within 17,000 votes of Specter last time. With these kind of numbers, a closed primary, and a much smaller PA GOP due to voters who defected in 2008 to vote for Clinton or Obama — this looks very grim for Arlen.
Not sure the Democrats even need a credible candidate against Toomey in the fall.
as long as the Democrat is breathing …
and the good people of Pennsylvania might waive that requirement too, in a pinch
this is off topic on topic as it will be the subject matter for a while and the republicans insist on using rush limbaugh as their face to the nation
rush is more hated then bush himself
I wonder how long they will go along with that putz when they figure out it’s hurting their chances
Meanwhile, with just a little less than six years to go in Al Franken’s senate term, Norm Coleman is calling for an election do-over.
Specter actually started out as a Democrat
And speaking of The Ditto, here’s Letterman taking a swipe at him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr7rqqeIzI
Yeah…
This is totally OT, my apologies, but I just saw a CNN money feature with some guy named Peter Schiff saying the administration is driving the country from recession into depression and everything is dire and the only way to save yourselves is to invest in foreign investments.
Who is Peter Schiff you say?
CEO of something called Euro Pacific Investments.
Jee-bus, CNN, get your shit together on your guest bookings. Shill much?
Limpballs less ”popular” than Bush. *check*
CNN financial advice: ill-advised. *check*
Spector’s polling tanking. OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!
And here’s hoping those pathetic polling numbers keep Spector voting for Obama’s policies from here on down the drain Spector so richly deserves!
Schiff is a goof but he predicted, as many of us did here, the economic downturn. His further predictions are fairly stupid, and as you point out self-serving. Foreign markets are tanking faster than ours and the dollar is a much safer haven than other currencies for essentially the same reason.
Here by the way is link which analyzes Schiff predictions:
http://globaleconomicanalysis……wrong.html
They were:
He only got the first one right and again as many of us did here but as the other points indicate he blew the others.
Actually, perris, I think it’s Comedian Rush Limbaugh who is insisting on being the party’s face. But the Republics are allowing him to do it.
It’s another example of Republics wanting to fall in line. They don’t care if it’s a reasonable place to fall in line, just so they can fall in line. Rush said, “The line forms here.” They said, “Okay, Rush.”
We may still have a bout of inflation coming out of this depression-avoidance plan. As far as decoupling goes, it ain’t happening: the US is the world’s largest consumer economy. You can’t decouple from it. Same for commodities.
As the old saw goes, the US economy sneezes, _______ gets pneumonia. The blank has been variously filled with Mexico, Latin America (generally), Europe, and Asia. Africa seems to have a constant case of pneumonia, so I don’t know what happens to them when our economy sneezes.
hey teddy, can I call the senator from Pennsylvania “Magic Bullet” around here ???
my muse makes me call him scottish haggis at home …
(wink)
you wouldn’t tell her about this, would you ???
All Republics drink at the font of a polynidal cyst.
He’ll always be ‘Magic Bullet’ to me, but Marcy will miss her Haggis should he head home, I imagine….
Can us Dems have him back? He’s his own man, speaks his mind, and votes his conscience. Wouldn’t that make 60? Toss in Bunning and you get 61.
If his votes reflect his conscience, he is where he belongs now.