As Democrat, Specter leads in home state: poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party appears to be paying off with a poll on Monday showing him ahead in his 2010 re-election race in Pennsylvania.

Last week Specter, 79, abandoned the Republican Party to run for re-election as a Democrat, a move denounced by fellow Republicans but welcomed by the country's top Democrat, President Barack Obama.

Specter said his philosophy was more in line now with Democrats than Republicans, who fired back that he was simply bending to the political winds in order to hang on to power.

A Quinnipiac University poll found Specter would defeat a conservative Republican who is in the race, Pat Toomey, if the election were held today by 53 percent to 33 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5433IH20090504

Looks like Arlen played the odds to his favor. Just not sure how progressive he is at all.

Only good things will happen.

I say quickly because I don't want Obama to have to support him for very long.