The seesaw 2010 Senate race in Pennsylvania tips to Republican Pat Toomey, who has 43 percent to recently converted Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter’s 42 percent, too close to call, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This reverses a 45 – 44 percent tip to Sen. Specter July 22 and wipes out a 20-point Specter lead May 4, in the flush of Specter’s switch from Republican to Democrat to escape a primary battle with Toomey.
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in the Keystone State has dropped to a new low, 49 – 42 percent, the first time he has been under 50 percent in the state, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds.
The good news for Sen. Specter, who was first elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1980, is that he remains far ahead of his Democratic primary challenger, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak from southeastern Pennsylvania, 44 – 25 percent.
I think that Sestak might become more appealing to PA Democrats – certainly, if I were a PA Democrat, I’d be furious about the powers-that-be saddling me with a worn out, retread reject from another party. Be that as it may, the fact that Toomey is doing so well in this trial heat shows how precarious the Democrats’ hold on power has become.
Its still a near impossibility for the GOP to score a majority in the Senate, but we can certainly whittle down the Democrats majority by 5 or 6, if we fight hard.
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