Specter trails in Senate race, poll says

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09084/958134-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml

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Longtime Sen. Arlen Specter is trailing a Republican rival in the race for the 2010 Senate seat, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll released this morning.

Mr. Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey, 41 to 27 percent, the poll said. Twenty-eight percent are undecided, however.

"Pennsylvania Republicans are so unhappy with Sen. Specter's vote for President Barack Obama's stimulus package and so-called pork barrel spending that they are voting for a former Congressman they hardly know," said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Richards said Mr. Toomey "has strong conservative backing, but his challenge could be fractured if more Republicans crowd into the primary and split the anti-Specter vote,"
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Who are we going to run against Specter?

Over the years I have been furious with and exasperated by Specter. I imagine that he would beat any Democrat we would put up next year, although I'm not sure why he's running again, he's 80 years old for gawd sake. But I am concerned about his losing to a loon like Toomey or even loonier Peg Luksik, who is talking about running again. Unless we get a really strong Dem in the general, we could be in trouble. We sent Santorum to the Senate for 12 years, I am not so sure that we wouldn't send another wing nut as well. As bad as Specter can be, better the devil you know, right?