New Q-Pac poll: Sestak surging against Toomey

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http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1327.xml?ReleaseID=1454

Sestak 40, Toomey 42 compared to 34 - 42 last month
Specter 40, Toomey 47 compared to 41 - 46 last month

and

"Although the Quinnipiac poll of likely Democratic primary voters finds that many more think Sen. Arlen Specter is the better general election candidate, Congressman Joe Sestak actually runs a good deal better against Toomey in a trial heat," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The money that Sestak has been spending introducing himself to Democratic primary voters with TV ads seems to be having an effect on general election voters as well. The difference is largely among independent voters, who favor Toomey 52 - 31 percent over Specter, but only 46 - 30 percent over Sestak."

Specter, seeking his sixth term in the Senate, gets his worst approval rating ever, a negative 38 - 51 percent. He also gets a negative 36 - 50 percent favorability rating.

By comparison, Toomey gets a 29 - 9 percent favorability with 60 percent who don't know enough about him. Sestak has a 32 - 14 percent favorability with 52 percent who don't know enough about him.

[old mark]

1. GOOD! Toomey is a real RW bastard who would be another disaster in

the senate...think Santorum.


mark

[disillusioned73]

2. k&r

[JPZenger]

3. kicked

[Divernan]

4. Excellent news for Sestak.

Evidently Obama is influenced by Sestak's growing positive poll numbers and will not campaign for Specter in the closing days of this very tight race.

Bad news for all of Specter's Republican staffers whom he brought with him in his latest party switch. Bet they're fighting each other to find new positions - and guess what - that would be on the GOP side of the aisle where they have a career lifetime of connections.