Likely Republican nominee Pat Toomey is now ahead of both Democrats who are vying to run against him next year in Pennsylvania’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters finds Toomey capturing 46% against incumbent Senator Arlen Specter’s 42%. In October, Toomey had a virtually identical 45% to 40% lead.
And this is before Specter has had a chance to open his mouth a lot and torpedo himself.
Let’s not forget that Arlen’s cushy home with the Donkey party isn’t so cushy, largely because he isn’t really respected by anyone on either side of the aisle. Everyone knows he’s a back stabbing douchenozzle. Specter is also facing a primary challenge from Joe Sestak and Toomey made a big move on him.
But Toomey’s big turnaround is against Joe Sestak, the liberal Philadelphia-area congressman, who hopes to deny Specter the Democratic nomination for the seat he has held for nearly 30 years. Toomey now beats Sestak by six points – 44% to 38% – after being tied with him in the previous survey. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and 13% are not sure.
Any way you look at it, Arlen Specter may finally have horse-traded himself onto the trash heap of irrelevance he deserves.
