They say that Rick Santorum made all the difference against Toomey in 2004. He won't be around, at least as senator, this time around. Specter has also been continously fighting leukemia (God bless him) on and off for a while now. I'm not 100% sure he will actually run when it's time to file.

There are BETTER and more credible potential Democratic candidates to take on Specter. Matthews is nothing but a celebrity candidate who has no demonstrable heavy lifting work for Dems in PA.
Same thing we got with Al Franken. Ciresi would have easily won the MN seat.

I hope we don't make the same mistake twice.

matthews, imo, is not going to leave millions of dollars on the table to become the 100th most powerful senator.

With a credible candidate in the race, we're going to win this by 10 points.  Specter isn't even close to 50 in three polls now.  Shades of those early Santorum polls from 2005.

Surely we can find a better candidate than Matthews.  Gawd, I'd almost want to contribute to Specter if that were the matchup.

Al Franken may be a celebrity candidate but he's also a genuine progressive.  Whereas Chris Matthews is the poster child for the sort of media punditry that makes our public discourse worse.  And he trashes Democrats more than Joe Lieberman does.

Reports of a bad year for Dems in 2010 are premature at best. Unless there is a national trend, and we would not see that until much closer to Election Day, I think it will be muddled. I see us losing about 20 seats in the House, gaining a few in the Senate and more or less swapping governorships. We've had five dramatic elections in a row, I am sure folks are getting tired.

As a Pennsylvanian, I hope can find another candidate.

Specter isn't wholly unlikeable and I'd have a hard time voting for Matthews.

He's someone definitely I can see Obama being able to work with... being marginally unpopular with Republicans is a point in his favor, methinks.

Of course I'd rather have a Democrat there, but Matthews?  Really?  That guy isn't loyal to Democratic principles so much as the sound of his own voice.

Then again, if it gets him off the air...

There is a group of women already being formed to take down Matthews, "Women aganist Matthews". All the s** he's said about Hillary over years-his A* is grass.  Make our day Matthews. If this is the best candidate the DEMS can come up with-kiss that seat good-bye.

What a totally unpalatable candidate.  This man is a misogynist.  He is deaf to the progressive agenda.  He lusts after dirtbags like Lieberman, and even proposed to vote for the despicable bush because he would like to have a beer with him.  As Charlie Brown would put it, "Aaaaargh!"

I hate to tell you this, and I'm a blue blue Democrat... I would NEVER NEVER vote for Matthews. He's a Republican political hack, a kiss a**, a collaborator on the war, and an opportunist against Democrats. Having him there is nothing worse than having the worse of the worst Republican in that office. If I were in Pennsylvania, and I were Democrat, I would not vote for Spector, but I WOULD NOT VOTE FOR MATTHEWS EITHER, especially since he's pushed a real vindictive hatred aginst Democrats for year, and he's got this severe hatred, obscessive sociopathic hatred of the Clintons and against other Democrats from Pelosi on. He's nothing but someone who gains income from betraying his country and our future nightly.

I'd love to help defeat Matthews.