I saw your post on Battlegrounders about the Hoeffel/Specter race. The only Republican I didn’t vote for was Specter. I had been going back and forth about whether to vote for him, but the last straw was his pro-stem cell research ad with Michael J. Fox. The issue ranks fairly low for me, but given that the Democrats had been attacking Bush on it and the ad ends with “Arlen Specter (emphasis mine) gets it” it was the last straw (along with the reports of the Specter-Kerry signs). Particularly given that I had thought he was far ahead in the polls, and the ad would only hurt Bush.
I even told a friend from Taiwan about voting for Hoeffel, saying something along the lines “it doesn’t matter since Specter’s up by 10 or 20 points”. Oh well, but then again it might actually be easier to get the judges through without Specter as the chair of the Judiciary Committee (assuming that we pick up several seats in the Senate).