U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter leads Democratic primary challenger U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey in the race for Mr. Specter’s seat, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning.
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Specter takes lead in Senate race, poll shows
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010PA’s Senate race among the nation’s most expensive
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Already, candidates in 10 SEN races have raised more than $10M combined, according to reports filed with the FEC. Leading the pack is PA, where Sen. Arlen Specter is facing Rep. Joe Sestak (D) in the Dem primary. The winner will take on ex-Rep. Pat Toomey (R) in a general election.
PoliticsPA: Specter explains sudden support of reconciliation
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Senator Arlen Specter said Tuesday that he now supports using reconciliation to approve health care legislation because he says he’s discovered lawmakers have used the procedural move many times in the past.
But although he thinks the Senate now has a “really good chance” to approve the health care bill, he called inclusion of the “so-called” public option in it a “longshot.”
PoliticsPA: Sestak says he’ll debate Toomey if Specter won’t accept invitation
Thursday, February 18th, 2010U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak has repeatedly invited Democratic opponent Arlen Specter to a series of six debates before the primary, requests the incumbent has denied.
ON BACKGROUND: Toomey’s interesting decision, Rohrer’s transparency and Corbett on reform
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Every week, PoliticsPA will give you a taste of the buzz, rumors and gossip floating around Pennsylvania’s political wags. This week we talk Toomey’s non-endorsement decision, Sam Rohrer putting an exact number on his fundraising goal, Corbett’s reform plan and why all efforts to find candidates to replace John Murtha might be for not.
PoliticsPA: 2004 it ain’t — Toomey gets GOP endorsement
Saturday, February 13th, 2010HARRISBURG — In 2004, Pat Toomey was the enemy of most Pennsylvania Republican officials when he challenged incumbent U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the GOP primary.
On Saturday, he was their near-unanimous pick to represent the party in the fall, possibly against the man he narrowly lost to six years ago.
PoliticsPA: Toomey maintains lead in latest Ras poll
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey leads both of his potential Democratic opponents by nearly 10 points, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday.
PoliticsPA: Toomey on Wall St. reform, Brown, political pundits
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey said Wednesday that the country’s financial-regulation system has “significant inadequacies” but declined, for now, to take a position on any of the reform plans proposed in congress or by the president.
“That whole process is very much evolving … I’ll be following it as it develops,” Toomey told PoliticsPA in an interview.
Toomey receives county nod by [just] 1 vote
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010SUNBURY — Despite statewide polling that indicates Republican Pat Toomey has a solid lead over Democratic opponents, including incumbent Arlen Specter, in this fall’s U.S. Senate race, the Allentown candidate on Tuesday barely won the endorsement of Northumberland County’s GOP Committee.
CQ changes Senate race to ‘tossup’
Saturday, January 30th, 2010It is now clear that Pennsylvania’s Senate race will be one of the most competitive in the country and that party-switching Sen.Arlen Specter (D-Pa) no longer has the upper hand when it comes to holding his seat for another term.
Several polls over the past few months have shown former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) ahead of Specter, and some surveys have even shown him leading by double digits.
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