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Thursday, October 15, 2009

New Poll Bad News For Specter

Grim campaign news for Sen. Arlen Specter today.

A new survey from Susquenhanna Polling shows that 59 percent of state residents think it's time to give Specter's seat to someone else. A mere 16 percent of Republicans want to see Specter re-elected, while 44 percent of Democrats want him back.

Check out the poll here.

 
Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 4:20 PM  Permalink | 1 comment
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:16 AM, 10/16/2009
    These polls mean very little. Any poll that asks voters to compare a real politician--and especially an incumbent with a long track record-- with some ideal in their head usually puts the pol in a relatively bad light. Elections, however, are always between two real people whose flaws have been made apparant to all in the course of a long campaign. And then the incumbents tend to look a lot better.
    — Marc Stier


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