Republicans got rid of Bennett in Utah – will Democrats in Pennsylvania get rid of Specter?
Not A Bad Weekend At All for Congressman Joe Sestak, who’s opened up a 4-point lead (46-42percent) over U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the daily Morning Call/Muhlenberg College tracking poll.
With just about 10 days left until the primary, 12 percent of the 404 likely primary voters in the daily canvass are still undecided.
And as the poll, itself, has a margin of error of +/-5 percentage points, this is still a toss up race. But I think that even Democrats are getting a little tired of the party bosses deciding who gets to run. Who is Specter to life-long Democrats?
To be sure, he was a tolerable Republican who could pull in some Democrat votes from time to time, but he was obviously never near and dear to the hearts of Democrats. But then he had to switch or get blown out of the water in the GOP primary – and the Democrats, desperate to get their 60th Senate vote – snatched him and up and tried to suppress primary opposition.
Well, that 60th vote thing didn’t work out as well as they hoped – and now it seems that at least a lot of Pennsylvania Democrats would prefer to have a Democrat as their candidate. DINOs and RINOs both seem to be on the endangered species list.
(Ed. Note: please remember that I have no use for an uber-liberal like Sestak…but I am highly sympathetic to Democrats who don’t wan to be saddled with Specter; I still hope that Specter pulls it off, because that make our victory almost existentially certain…but we can beat Sestak, too.)
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