Specter Retakes Lead in Tracking Poll
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 14th, 2010 4:40 am by HL
Specter Retakes Lead in Tracking Poll
The latest Muhlenberg/Morning Call tracking poll in Pennsylvania shows Sen. Arlen Specter (D) just edging Rep. Joe Sestak (D) in their Democratic Senate primary, 45% to 43%.
Crist Liberated from Partisan Warfare
Even though his decision to drop out of the Republican U.S. Senate primary was about political survival as much as anything, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist “is now talking like a man liberated from the constraints of partisan orthodoxy,” the St. Petersburg Times reports.
Said Crist: “I’m very happy. I really am. Listen, I don’t know if I’ve ever enjoyed being a public servant as much as I have the past few weeks because I feel really in touch with where the people are… It sickens me to watch cable TV and see these people argue all day long. I think to myself, what in the world are they doing? Do they care so much about their party first that they’ve forgotten about their country and our people?”
Sandoval Likely to Oust Gibbons in Nevada
A new Mason-Dixon poll in Nevada finds Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) trailing challenger Brian Sandoval (R) by 18 points with less than four weeks until the gubernatorial primary, 45% to 27%.