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Toplines - 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary - August 11, 2009

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Pennsylvania State Survey of 423 Likely Democratic Primary Voters

Conducted August 11, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

1* Suppose the Democratic Primary for the 2010 United States Senate were held today. Would you vote for Arlen Specter or Joe Sestak?

47% Specter

34% Sestak

3% Some other candidate

16% Not sure

2* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

Specter

Sestak

Very Favorable

29%

14%

Somewhat Favorable

42%

40%

Somewhat Unfavorable

11%

18%

Very Unfavorable

14%

5%

Not Sure

4%

24%

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence