7/22/09 PA Quinnipiac Statewide:

US Senate General Head to Head:
Specter 45% Toomey 44%
Toomey 39% Sestak 35%
Specter 47% Luksik 40%
Sestak 39% Luksik 30%

US Senate Primary Head to Head:
Specter 55% Sestak 23%
Toomey 47% Luksik 6%

Specter deserves reelection:
Yes: 40%
No: 49%

Approval/Disapproval/Don’t know:
Obama: 56%-37%
Specter: 47%-46%
Casey 53%-25%-21%

Favorable/Unfavorable/Don’t Know:
Specter: 45%-44%
Toomey: 34%-10%-56%
Sestak: 23%-7%-69%
Luksik: 13%-5%-82%

Too liberal/too conservative/about right/don’t know:
Specter: 31%-8%-46%-16%
Toomey: 4%-10%-38%-48%

4/11/09 PA Lincoln Institue Businesses Leaders:

Company Sales in last 6 months:
Increased 13.3%
Same 24.3%
Decreased 61.5%

Positives/Negatives of official:
Barack Obama: 26.4%-63.4%
Arlen Specter: 24.4%-60.0%
Robert P. Casey: 13.8%-54.2%
Ed Rendell: 13.8%-75.1%
Attorney General Tom Corbett: 37.9%-12.9%
Auditor General Jack Wagner: 13.8%-13.3%

Positives/Negatives of govt:
US Senate: 9.7%-80.1%
US House: 6.6%-82.7%
PA Senate: 17.7%-57.1%
PA House: 12.0%-62.7%

Favor or oppose ‘Card Check’:
Favor: 3.2%
Oppose: 89.5% (80.8% Strongly)

Position on Auto Bailout:
Favor: 11.4%
Oppose: 86.3% (58% strongly)

Raise taxes or cut spending to close state budget deficit?
Raise Taxes 0.5%
Cut Spending 81.7%
Combination of two 16.1%

Gov Primary Head to Head (R):
Tom Corbett 72.2%
Pat Meehan 10.2%
Jim Gerlach 17.6%

US Senate Primary Head to Head (R):
Arlen Specter 15.3%
Pat Toomey 63.7%
Peg Luksik 4.5%

(Lincoln Institute Analysis on this survey)