rasmussen had toomey up 10 a week ago. republican strategists concede that the race is tightening in PA, but I don't believe it's tied. but whatever the situation is, it is fixable. the republicans haven't spent anything in PA so far because there wasn't any need to; toomey was cruising. sestak's bump also comes after every prominent democrat in the country went barnstorming through the state.
this is nothing that a little money can't fix.
Election 2010: Pennsylvania Senate
Pennsylvania Senate: Toomey (R) Grows Lead Over Sestak (D)
Democratic U.S. Representative Joe Sestak has pulled within two percentage points of former Republican Representative Pat Toomey in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania, after trailing by seven points a month ago, a poll released today shows.
If the vote were held today, the Quinnipiac University poll shows that 46 percent of likely voters would support Sestak and 48 percent would back Toomey -- within the three-percentage- point margin of error. That makes the race “a statistical dead heat,†according to a statement accompanying the results. A Sept. 22 Quinnipiac poll showed Toomey ahead 50-43 percent.
“Pennsylvania is a blue state and Democrats there have begun to come home,†Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, said in a statement, referring to the state’s frequent preference for Democrats. “Democrats often engage later in the campaign than do Republicans.â€
Sestak and Toomey are vying to fill the seat of Arlen Specter, the 80-year-old Republican-turned-Democrat who in the May 2010 primary failed to win his new party’s nomination to hold the seat. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race a “tossup.†Republicans need a net gain of 10 seats to take control of the Senate from Democrats.
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