“Arlen Specter” on The Daily Caller

So an ex-senator walks into a comedy club… (more)

Tea Partier and U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke ripped into former U.S. Sen. and Virginia Gov. George Allen, calling him a part of the Washington establishment. The dig comes on the heels of Allen announcing on Monday that he’s running for Senate in 2012. (more)

(CNN) – Sen. Arlen Specter, the outgoing Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat, directed a parting blow Tuesday to members of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc. (more)

In their postmortems of the 2010 elections, many in the Senate Republican establishment have placed the blame for their inability to regain the majority on Senator Jim DeMint’s principled pre-election endorsements. Once again these establishment elites are wrong. (more)

PHILADELPHIA | Joe Sestak is trying so hard to turn out voters here that sometimes he doesn’t appear to know what he’s saying. (more)

A series of polls in recent days have shown key Senate races tightening, with the leads of both Republican and Democrat candidates shrinking rather than either party gaining momentum. (more)

Her Party may be facing slaughter at the polls on Nov. 2, and the jarring unemployment rate may be driving economic malaise across the country. But neither will stop Pelosi from the time-honored practice of betting on sports. (more)

Outgoing Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) on Monday will campaign for the man who ended his three-decade Senate career, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) (more)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Sen. Jim DeMint, Republican from South Carolina, implored pastors to “come out from the safety of their walls” and urge the faithful to see economic issues as moral issues Friday night at a Southern Baptist church in South Carolina. (more)

Unsportsmanlike conduct is unbecoming for either gender. Unfortunately for her, daddy’s little girl in Alaska — Lisa Murkowski — didn’t get to keep her Senate seat, a gift her father gave her in 2002, a seat Murkowski won two years later with less than 50% of the vote. Earlier this month, she lost in a stunning primary upset to Joe Miller, the Sarah-Palin backed conservative — and she’s not happy. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama reached out fervently Monday to skeptical voters who are still hurting long after the declared end of the recession, imploring them to stick with him in elections that could inflict catastrophic losses on Democrats in just six weeks. (more)

During post-election analysis, Republican luminaries stumbled badly in discussing Christine O’Donnell on the night of the Delaware senatorial primary. (more)

South Carolina’s 5th congressional district may be a textbook example of the anti-incumbent sentiment that has already helped defeat the likes of Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis in party primaries this election cycle. (more)

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It’s the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate. (more)

For years, Republican leaders complained about their party’s inability to change its moribund image. The GOP was seen as the party of old Washington hands — of old, white men. The face of the party was the unpopular George Bush, and the grassroots had grown completely disconnected from the party over spending and other issues. Conservatives complained that the party had lost its way, while many small-government libertarians voted for the most liberal presidential candidate ever elected. (more)

Democratic senators are donating generously to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid but his biggest contributor is the one who often gives him a serious case of heartburn – Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.). (more)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican who has broken ranks in the past with the GOP, gave Democrat Joe Sestak his second major endorsement from moderates in a week in his bid for a hotly contested Senate seat in Pennsylvania. (more)

Former President Bill Clinton this week denied any role in trying to lure Rep. Joe Sestak out of the Senate primary against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, an assertion that undermines a White House explanation of a controversy that left egg on the face of President Obama. (more)

The Delaware Republican primary is boiling down to one issue: Who will be able to beat the Democrat opponent? (more)

Primary elections in Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota and Connecticut on Tuesday will provide perhaps the best snapshot of the electorate’s mood since May 18, when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was ousted in a Democratic primary and Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Here’s POLITICO’s guide on the top races to watch. (more)