In the last post regarding this race, I mentioned a Daily Kos piece about Specter’s seemingly impossible chances to win re-election in the Republican primary. The next day, the go to guy for Pennsylvania politics G. Terry Madonna wrote a piece expressing similar sentiments. It seems that Specter is getting the message.

Already, Specter has released an ad trying to tie Toomey to Wall Street. Specter has also released a first campaign e-mail playing up his opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. We here at Daily Horse Race try to emphasize the sport of politics, and boy is Specter playing the game. After being a moderate voice at the beginning of the year and being rumored to switching to the Democratic Party, he made a McCainesque jump into sudden full on conservatism. The bottom line? Specter does not want to be anything but a Republican and after serving for so long will not lose to someone like Pat Toomey without a hard fight. Game on.