Remember what they tried to do in Pennsylvania?
And now Toomey is a Senator. Would Snarlin' Arlen have been able to beat Sestak as a Republican? I'm not so sure on that one.
People were tired of Specter (but, I must admit, they were pushed over the edge with the party switch. He wasn't
that unpopular before it). In this type of year and assuming Specter would have held onto Independents/moderates, he would have been hard to beat but plenty of us on the right would have been even more enraged and Sestak very well could have won. It's a moot point though since Specter was never surviving a primary. He would have been lucky to hit 40%.