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Uh, why is Peg Luksik running? Even Pat Toomey isn't conservative enough for her liking?

Anyways, that is a massive discrepancy between likely and registered voters. This seems like one of those races where the polling is just all over the place, and usually in those races, it seems like somehow nobody winds up polling it accurately. Should be an interesting election next Tuesday.

I have been seeing Sam Rohrer signs all over Lancaster County lately. I was wondering who he was. He's running for Republican nominee for Governor. I never heard of him and I live in PA. How can he beat Corbett who is well known in the state. Regarding the senate seat, SPecter and Sestak can both win this although I am giving Sestak a slight advantage since he doesn't have the high unfavorables that Specter has. Once people see that he is more conservative than Santorum. I think Sestak or Specter can win this. Nobody really knows who Toomey is yet. Once they do, I think Democrats will come out to vote against him. PA aren't ecstatic over the Dems right now but they sure aren't going to elect a Senator that is closer to Coburn than to Casey.

Sam Rohrer signs are ALL over berks county as well, and Chester County. I really think the race between him and Corbett is closer than it appears. However, Rohrer is from Berks county, so Chris, it might just be in our areas that we see signs. It's possible that no one knows who he is in the western part of the state.

Kind of stupid to use the likely and unlikely voter standard in a primary. In my book any primary voter who actually belongs to a party is likely to vote. It is usually Independents who tend not to be as interested in politics.

I lived in Berks for years though and I still never heard of him though. Who is he Fred?

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I never voted in any Democratic primary until Hillary and Obama. I am more political than I was several years ago. I am going to this year though.

Glad you are voting in the primary Mr Merkey. After 1994, it was a good wakeup call that more Democrats have to get active in primaries, regardless of who wins, because it only furthers the momentum in the General Election.

In PA it is too bad Indies can't vote in primaries. In states where they can, you sometimes will nominate the most winnable candidate in the general.

Wow. This shows that Sestak has the momentum in both the primary fight and general. If he beats Specter next Tuesday, it won't mean an easy victory for Toomey. Toomey is too conservative for PA, but against Specter, he can very likely win as people in PA are getting tired of Spector. Against Sestak though, he has a real fight as many in PA see Sestak more as one of them fighting for the little guy.

If we could just get these polling outfits to stop displaying data in which "fair" and "poor" are in the same category! Approve/disapprove is a concept understood by the public. For many people, "fair" is neutral or even slightly positive, regardless of the fact that on, for example, a restaurant hospitality survey it's considered a "low grade." Is Franklin & Marshall actually going to say President Obama has a 38% level of support in Pennsylvania? lol

Rohrer is a State Representative from Berks County.

Chris Matthews cornered Specter tonight. Specter admitted to voting for John Mccain in 2008 and he greeted Palin in support of her in PA. He also said, Clarence thomas has done a lot of things I agree with. What Democratic candidate expects to win points, by saying "Clarence Thomas has made some good decisions in Court". Obama and John Kerry are actually endorsing Specter?

I predict that Obama will probably endorse Lieberman in 2012 even though he will get killed if he runs as an Independent.

Gosh PA is a mean state to give Obama such low favorability. I have better ratings than that in states I view as conservative. In one poll Arizona wasn't that much worse.

When it comes to PA voters, who needs enemies when you have impatient voters like that. I am going to make phone call after phone call this year, hopefully for Sestak to make sure that the people in the ghettos, the younger voters, will show up to the polls as long as they are eligable to vote.

Franklin and Marshall is a quaker school which I imagine leans liberal.

I love the Quakers and there are a lot around that area; they are very anti-war and progressive minded. They are my kind of Christianity!!!! I wish they could replace all these crazy fanatical fundamental mega churches.

Unfortunately there are not enough to have an impact on the wacky voter trends in that part of PA. It is a great area, and I almost moved there once, but just wish it wasn't so goddamned conservative.