10/14/09 PA Rasmussen Statewide:

US Senate Race General:
Pat Toomey: 45%
Arlen Specter: 40%

Pat Toomey: 37%
Joe Sestak: 38%

Favorable/Unfavorable:
Specter: 46%-52%
Toomey: 52%-27%
Sestak: 37%-34%

Approve/Disapprove:
Obama: 51%-48%
Rendell: 37%-61%

Gov-run health insurance option:
Favor: 43%
Oppose: 43%

Gov-run health insurance option if it encouraged companies to drop private health insurance coverage for their workers?:
Favor: 23%
Oppose: 63%

Table Games in PA:
Yes: 53%
No: 29%

10/1/09 PA Quinnipiac Statewide:

US Senate Race Primary Head to Head:
Specter 44%
Sestak 25%

US Senate Race General Head to Head:
Specter 42%
Toomey 43%

Sestak 35%
Toomey 38%

Favorable/Unfavorable:
Specter: 42%-46
Sestak: 21%-8%
Toomey: 34%-12%

Job Approval/Disapproval:
Specter: 44%-48%
Casey: 52%-29%
Obama: 49%-42%

Specter deserves to be reelected?
Yes: 37%
No: 52%

Obama handling of economy Approval/Disapproval:
46%-47%

Obama handling of health care Approval/Disapproval:
39%-53%

Obama’s health care reform plan Support/Oppose
41%-47%

8/14/09 PA DailyKos/Research 2000 Statewide:

US Senate General Head to Head:
Toomey 40% Specter 45%
Toomey 41% Sestak 42%

Favorable/Unfavorable:
Specter: 52%-40%
Sestak: 37%-19%
Toomey: 37%-34%
Rendell: 48%-41%
Casey: 56%-29%
Obama: 55%-40%

8/13/09 PA Rasmussen Statewide:

US Senate General Head to Head:
Toomey 48% Specter 36%
Toomey 43% Sestak 35%

Job Approval/Disapproval:
Obama: 51%-47%
Rendell: 39%-50%

Rendell’s handling of state budget crisis:
Excellent: 4%
Good: 17%
Fair: 27%
Poor: 48%

Favorable/Unfavorable:
Specter: 43%-54%
Toomey: 54%-26%
Sestak: 40%-36%

8/12/09 PA Rasmussen Statewide:

Obama & Democrats’ Health Care Plan:
Favor 42%
Oppose: 53%

Obama job approval rating (NOW):
Approve: 51%
Disapprove: 47%

Obama job approval rating (June):
Approve: 60%
Disapprove: 39%

6/24/09 PA Franklin & Marshall Statewide:

Direction of state:
‘On The Wrong track” 48%
“Headed in the Right Direction” 44%

Better or worse off compared to year ago:
“Worse off” 43%
Same: 45%

Job Rating: Excellent/Good/Only fair/Poor
Obama: 20%-35%-25%-19%
Specter: 10%-24%-37%-18%
Rendell: 10%-28%-34%-25%

Specter Approval Rating (March vs. June):
March: 52% June: 34%

Favorable/Unfavorable/Undecided/Don’t Know:
Obama: 56%-27%
Specter: 31%-37%
Casey: 32%-17%-17%-34%
Rendell: 42%-40%

Specter re-election (March vs. June):
March: Deserves re-election: 40% Time for a change: 46%
June: Deserves re-election: 28% Time for a change: 57%

US Senate Primary Head to Head:
Specter: 33%
Sestak: 13%
Don’t Know: 48%

State Legislature’s job:
Excellent: 1%
Good: 26%
Only Fair: 49%
Poor: 18%

Quality of government in Pennsylvania:
Excellent: 3%
Good: 29%
Only Fair: 48%
Poor: 18%

How to deal with state budget deficit?:
Increase taxes: 29%
Cut state programs and services: 44%
Neither: 20%

6/18/09 PA Rasmussen Statewide:

US Senate General Head to Head:
Specter 50% Toomey 39%
Sestak 41% Toomey 35%

Favorable/Unfavorable:
Specter 53%-43%
Toomey 50%-35%
Sestak 42%-32%

Approval/Disapproval:
Rendell: 53%-46%
Obama: 60%-39%

5/28/09 PA Quinnipiac Statewide:

US Senate General Head to Head:
Specter 46%-Toomey 37%
Specter 50%-Sestak 21%

Favorable/Unfavorable/Unknown:
Specter: 46%-39%
Toomey:  27%-11%-61%

Specter Ideology:
‘too liberal’ 30%
‘too conservative’ 9%
‘about right’ 45%

Toomey Ideology:
‘too conservative’ 15%
‘too liberal’ 4%
‘about right’ 32%

Specter Deserves Reelection:
Yes 42% No 43%

Other Approval/Disapproval:
Obama: 62% – 31%
Rendell: 54%-37%
Casey: 56% – 21%

5/6/09 PA Daily Kos/Research 2000 Statewide:

Favorable/Unfavorable/No opinion:
Specter 54%-36%-10%
Sestak 29%-15%-56%
Torsella 11%-5%-84%
Toomey 33%-44%-23%
Ridge 55%-24%-21%
Obama 65%-28%-7%

Specter reelection support among Democrats:
Definite Specter: 37%
Consider someone else: 23%
Definitely someone else: 16%
Not sure: 24%

US Senate Primary Head to head:
Toomey (R) 41%
Ridge (R) 33%

Specter (D) 56%
Sestak (D) 11%
Undecided 33%

Specter (D) 60%
Torsella (D) 5%
Undecided 35%

US Senate General Head to head:
Specter (D) 55%
Toomey (R) 31%

Sestak (D) 37%
Toomey (R) 32%

Torsella (D) 35%
Toomey (R) 33%