Two pollsters now show Rep. Joe Sestak leading Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary. Over the weekend, a tracking poll of the race released by Muhlenberg College, which has shown Sestak surging in the last weeks before the May 18 primary, finally showed Sestak overtaking Specter and leading the race by a margin of 45-42.
Today, a new Rasmussen poll taken on Friday showed those numbers are no fluke — that poll shows Sestak ahead by a margin of 47-42.
The current TPM Poll Average for the race still shows Specter ahead, but by a significantly reduced margin of 45-39.
With the Muhlenberg and Rasmussen polls included, it’s clear that Sestak has the clear momentum moving into the final weeks of the race:
