Specter features Obama in ad as Sestak advances

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Having lost his once-comfortable lead in the Democratic Senate primary, Sen. Arlen Specter played his trump card Tuesday: President Obama. Specter "helped pull us back from the brink" with his decisive vote last year for the economic stimulus, Obama says in a new 30-second TV ad. "I love Arlen Specter."

The image, from a September fund-raiser, counters Rep. Joe Sestak's footage of President George W. Bush endorsing Specter as a "firm ally" in the 2004 Republican primary - a stark reminder that Specter switched parties last year. Sestak's ad also uses Specter's own words from news clips saying he became a Democrat last year "to get reelected." Specter changed parties out of concern he might lose a Republican primary. But now, he's imperiled in a Democratic one.

A Muhlenberg College-Morning Call nightly tracking poll released Tuesday showed that Sestak had edged ahead of Specter, 47 percent to 43 percent. That is within the survey's margin of error of 5 percentage points, but the challenger's advantage in the poll has grown steadily since late last week. Similarly, a Rasmussen Reports survey conducted Thursday showed Sestak at 47 percent and Specter at 42 percent, with a 4.5-point margin of error. And a Franklin and Marshall College poll to be released Wednesday is expected to show Sestak's numbers exceeding Specter's for the first time in that poll.

Meanwhile, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama had no plans for another campaign trip to Pennsylvania for Specter before Tuesday's primary, dampening hopes for a weekend get-out-the-vote rally in Philadelphia. Analysts say Specter, a five-term senator, has been caught up in an anti-incumbent mood, compounded by his April 2009 party switch, which has fed into Sestak's chief narrative that Specter is an untrustworthy opportunist.

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what was it ... 27 years as Repub? Or was it as soon as the oath was taken when he was first elected: "So help me God. Hey, I'm changing to Republican"?

after a short time in order to get elected. It seems party affiliation is secondary to to world being blessed with his service. :sarcasm:

and I heard that he had switched shortly after being elected ... I was just wondering how quickly he did it.

Don't trust Spectre. PERIOD.

There is a pecking order and Arlen wasn't climbing it fast enough to run for District Attorney.

The democratic party in Philadelphia and their machine ways are hardly something to celebrate.

Was one of the most disgusting scenes of pandering I have ever seen.

I would never get out of bed to vote for the cock sucker

was the most despicable public display I have ever seen in Congress, and that is a very low bar to get under.

Comparing being asked questions by Senators DURING YOUR SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION HEARING to a lynching? Seriously?

The families of people who had been lynched must have just sat there in shock.

If that man had been a Democrat, he would NEVER have been nominated to the SCOTUS. He simply was not qualified. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas

But, Poppy Bush felt as though he had to appoint an African American to fill the vacancy left by Thurgood Marshall (although he claimed that Thomas was simply the best qualified candidate available at that time). And, in those days, African American Republicans were probably not that easy to find. Either that, or Thomas had something on the Bush Crime family.

election.



Sphincter would probably switch back to (R) if he could win.

That rat-bastard is the epitome of everything that's shit with US politics.

:)

If Sestak wins. let's see if and how hard Pres. Obama campaigns for Sestak to win the election. After all, Sestak did not play ball with the WH attempt to take Sestak out of the primary.

The Party stars and the DNC threw a lot of muscle into Lieberman's primary fight, then left Lamont, damaged by their efforts, pretty much on his own in his bid for Lieberman's seat.

I hope people learned a lesson from that and history does not repeat itself, if Sestak becomes the candidate.

....retire already....you've been there a half century, what more do you want?....you wrote the warren report, been fucking up Washington since the early 1800s and still you hang on like a bad cold....

"I love Arlen Specter."

....well, that's good Prez, but apparently a lot of people don't....

From what they say here, though Sestak may be just as far to the right as Spectre. So sad.

Another little enabler about to go down to defeat

Shortly after he switched to Democratic, he made a similar mistake when speaking about something that was going in the Senate at the time. I can't recall the details, but he spoke as though he were still a Republican.

Maybe he needs a rest.

stumbled upon the most bizzare video on youtube..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJZl8dY0S4M

Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Extortion and Revenge.

"No, Mr Sestak. I expect you to DIE"