Specter's Rough Morning - Down by five and now he has to reconcile his "NO" vote on Kagan.

Specter's Rough Morning

By CQ-Roll Call Staff | May 10, 2010 8:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sen. Arlen Specter woke up today to two political headaches. First, the daily tracking poll in his primary -- which is now just a week and a day away -- finds Rep. Joe Sestak with all the upward momentum, though the Democratic nomination could still go either way.

Sestak was up by 5 points in the Muhlenberg College-Allentown Morning Call tracking poll, which has a 5-point margin of error. Of Democratic voters sampled, 11 percent were still undecided.

Second, there's what has to be the uncomfortable news that a nominee Specter voted against last year while he was still a Republican is going to be President Obama's next Supreme Court nominee.

It would be a pretty big slap to refuse to support the high court nominee of your own party's president, especially when that president is trying to help you hang on to your job. But how could Specter argue that someone he found unfit to argue cases before the Supreme Court is fit to rule on arguments in cases before the Supreme Court?

Take heart, senator, the choice of Elena Kagan isn't official until the White House says it is.

In the meantime, TPM's Christina Bellantoni links to Specter's own words from when Kagan last stood for confirmation, and Fox News has a good primer on Kagan.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/05/so-endangered-democrats-how-wi.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=eye-on-2010

FWIW, (R)asmussen also has Sestak up by five. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/pennsylvania/2010_senate_election/election_2010_pennsylvania_democratic_primary_for_senate

been enjoined to combine them to make a mechanical pelican.

Understandably, he has no idea how to do this.

He has to have it done by the 18th or Sestak will win.

Woe is Arlen.

I imagine many DUers are going to like Specter a lot more now.

Specter's always been a political chameleon.

So he switched sides. I really don't dislike Specter, he is a political animal for sure and a chameleon. But he always was a moderate Rethug and they have no room for those types anymore. Where are they supposed to go? Independent or Dem? Reminds me of Crist. Better to have more moderate Rethugs then the ultra conservative teabaggers.

However, I prefer Stestak and if he wins the primary then that is good for us. I have been closely watching this race to see who has a better shot at beating Toomey. I think Stestak is picking up a lot of good momentum right now.