RSSQuinnipiac Poll: Democratic Primary, Joe Sestak Closes Ground on Arlen Specter, Sestak Trails 47% – 39%
RUT-ROH … Specter in real fight to win Democrat nomination for Penn US Senate.
The Pennsylvania Democrat primary is coming down to the home stretch and incumbent US Senator Arlen Specter finds himself on the wrong side of the trending poll. The post recent Quinnipiac Poll shows Arlen Specter with a 47% to 39% lead of challenger US House Rep. Joe Sestak. Just one month ago Specter had a 53% to 32% lead over Sestak.
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak is within striking distance of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, trailing the long-time incumbent 47 – 39 percent among likely primary voters, compared to his 53 – 32 percent gap April 7, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today
The narrowing of the Specter/Sestak race is confirmed by other measures as well:
- Democrats trust Specter more than Sestak to do what he says he will do 42 – 31 percent, compared to 43 – 26 percent April 7;
- Voters give Specter a 57 – 31 percent favorability, compared to 60 – 26 percent;
- Sestak gets a 43 – 11percent favorability, compared to 33 – 6 percent.
But Democrats say 60 – 23 percent that Specter is more likely to win in November, little changed from April 7.
With just two weeks to go before the PA Democrat primary, Sestak only trails by 8 points, down from 21 points just a month ago.
Real concern for Specter should be the most April 2010 Rasmussen poll that showed Specter up by only 2% over Sestak. It will be telling to see what Rasmussen’s May polling data indicates in this race as to whether Specter will lose or eek out a narrow victory.
This Democrat primary will be telling as to the anti-incumbent fever in the US with regards to the Democrat party.
Real Clear Politics average polling has Specter up by 7%.
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Two Democrats, neither of which should be in the congress. Of course if Spector looses, then the Republican may have an easier time in November.
This may give the Republicans two seats, one in the Senate and the other in the House.
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter is an honorable man and a great U.S. Senator.
I actually watched this horrendous debate. And as whacked out as Specter is – Sestak has a ton of bolts loose. There’s something really wrong with that guy. Also, to top it off, he will not release his military records. According to Specter (in the debate) Sestak tried to “change the Navy” which was then translated into – ruled with a tyrannical fist and crushed moral. I hate specter and didn’t vote for him last time around (I voted for Tommey in the primary) and did not vote for either Specter nor Casey. Specter said he went back to his Democratic roots. He also said that he beat Tommey before and can beat him again, to which Sestak missed a golden opportunity to say – ‘if you could beat him again, why did you jump ship before the primary?’ Tommey will crush Specter and make Seatak look like a total amateur. Sestak is not ready for Tommey and it would be a blood bath. Specter, for what it’s worth – looked old, worn out and had very few intelligent rebuttals for the amateur Sestak during the debate.
I actually watched this horrendous debate. And as whacked out as Specter is – Sestak has a ton of bolts loose. There’s something really wrong with that guy. Also, to top it off, he will not release his military records. According to Specter (in the debate) Sestak tried to “change the Navy” which was then translated into – ruled with a tyrannical fist and crushed moral. I hate specter and didn’t vote for him last time around (I voted for Tommey in the primary) and did not vote for either Specter nor Casey. Specter said he went back to his Democratic roots. He also said that he beat Tommey before and can beat him again, to which Sestak missed a golden opportunity to say – ‘if you could beat him again, why did you jump ship before the primary?’ Tommey will crush Specter and make Seatak look like a total amateur. Sestak is not ready for Tommey and it would be a blood bath. Specter, for what it’s worth – looked old, worn out and had very few intelligent rebuttals for the amateur Sestak during the debate.
++ sorry for a partial duplicate – just wanted to add – the only reason Specter beat Tommey in the primary last time out was because Bush came in and gave him a semi-endorsement – Bush said ‘Arlen Specter is an independent voice for Pennsylvania’. Hardly a glowing endorsement, but more or less the bare minimum. Even with that semi-endorsement Tommey almost won.