Specter Says Toomey Vs. Sestak Will Be A ‘Dogfight’

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA)
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The man who lost his Senate seat in a primary says the race to succeed him will be a brutal one.
Senator Arlen Specter this week weighed in on the contest between Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey, in some of his first public comments about the race since his loss to Sestak in the May primary.

“It’s going to be a dogfight,” Specter told The Tribune-Review. “I wouldn’t call it a horse race, I’d call it a dogfight.”

Sestak and Toomey were set to continue that fight Thursday. Toomey was scheduled to campaign in State College with former Gov. Tom Ridge, while Sestak will be joined in Philadelphia by retiring Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND).

The original version of the story appears here: http://www.pa2010.com/2010/09/specter-says-toomey-vs-sestak-will-be-a-dogfight/

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