Senator Arlen Specter (D) of Pennsylvania raised over $1.1 million in the 4th quarter of 2009, and has over $8.6 million dollars cash in hand.<\/p>\n
Specter has been leading his Democratic primary challenger Congressman Joe Sestak in the polls for months. Sestak officials tell us that they raised $650,000 in the 4th quarter of 2009 and have $5.1 million on hand.<\/p>\n
Sestak himself has complained that he is a\u00a0loyal Democrat and his party is not helping him enough in his battle with Specter, who was a Republican for decades.<\/p>\n
When Specter switched parties national democrats assured him that they would help him in his re-election battle.<\/p>\n
Specter may end up needing a serious war chest as well. The 5 term Senator who converted to the Democratic party last spring has trailed in Republican Pat Toomey in numerous polls over the past few months.<\/p>\n
Many political insiders now consider the race a tossup, seeing former Republican Congressman Pat Toomey as a serious threat.<\/p>\n
When Specter switched parties last spring he admitted that he was facing an uphill fight in the Republican primary and cited that as one of the reasons for his decision.<\/p>\n
As Fox first reported, Toomey raised $1.67 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, and has $2.8 million cash on hand going into 2010.\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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