Road to November looks good for Toomey

Here’s some great news for those of who can’t wait to see RINO-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter defeated in November.

Franklin & Marshall’s February poll (PDF here) of 1143 Pennsylvania adults found Specter to be trailing GOP candidate Pat Toomey by 10 points among likely voters.

And it gets better:
- Toomey has a greater than 2:1 advantage over Independent voters (likely voters);
- Specter’s favorable to unfavorable ratio amongst all voters is 32% to 45%; and
- Just 3 in 10 registered say Specter is doing a “good” or “excellent” job.

One statistic stands out as the most damaging of all to Specter’s reelection hopes: only 25% of all voters say he deserves to be reelected, while 63% say it’s time for a change.

Nearly two-thirds!

You simply cannot win with unfavorables like that coupled with a “time for change” sentiment of 63%. Assuming Specter beats his primary opponent Sestak (not at all a shoo-in), there could be a new Republican Senator from PA this fall. Fingers crossed!

This will be a race to watch. To read more on the poll, USA today and Politico had some short pieces about it.