Reply #77: One or the other of them will be smiling next Tuesday night.

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The polling indicates a perilously close race.

Arlen Specter's approval ratings are in the 40s, described by one analyst as "lethal" territory.

I agree.

I also think the White House knows it has a very volatile situation on its hands.

Specter knows he has no other recourse but to hope Rendell and other heavy-hitters can somehow pull this out for him. Because his candidacy in and of itself is in serious jeopardy.

Sestak came from almost nowhere in the polling, wisteria. He was way, way down. Those people in Pennsylvania you say don't know Sestak evidently either know him well enough to have pulled him even or ahead of Arlen or else they know Arlen too well and prefer Sestak.

That's the basic arithmetic.