Fatal Polling
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:07pm 249 views
Posted under: Election, Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG — Only 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters believe Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter should be re-elected, and 59 percent believe it’s time to give someone else a chance, a state poll released today shows.
Specter’s numbers are “staggering,” said pollster Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling and Research. An incumbent typically is vulnerable if fewer than 40 percent approve of his or her re-election, Lee said. The poll of 700 registered voters, conducted Oct. 7-12, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
“When I see a re-elect in the low 30s, that’s … near fatal,” Lee said.
Will Specter consider ditching the Dem Party…again?
H/T: PaWatercooler
Tags: Arlen Specter
If he returns to the Republican Party, then NRSC Chairman John Cornyn will endorse him then.
The Republicans wouldn’t have him – at least, I hope they wouldn’t (never know with a Senate Republican caucus, do you?).
Maybe he seeks a seat in the House of Lords?