new Pennsylvania poll shows Dean with double-digit lead

[pruner]

Dean 28
Lieberman 17
Gephardt 10
Clark 9
Kerry 7

Dec. 11-14. MOE ±3

Even more telling, Dean would hold Bush to a 49-43 percent margin while the president would score 50 percent against Lieberman, Kerry and Clark, and 51 percent against Gephardt, the poll shows.

http://pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-10/107165934062211.xml

[goobergunch]

1. The poll also has Senate numbers

Pennsylvania voters split 46 -- 44 percent on whether they want Republican incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter reelected or whether they want someone else. But Specter leads U.S. Rep. Joseph Hoeffel 50 -- 32 percent in a general election matchup.

"At first blush, Sen. Specter may look vulnerable in his bid for re-election, but when you match him up with his announced Democratic challenger, it's no contest. The problem that both Rep. Pat Toomey has in his primary challenge and Rep. Hoeffel has in the general election is that more than 70 percent of Pennsylvania voters don't know enough about them to have an opinion," Richards said.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x9463.xml

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. PA has a late primary

Dean will have it all wrapped up long before PA's April primary.