Joe Torsella, the only announced Democratic Senate candidate of note in Pennsylvania, says that he’s staying in the race despite Specter’s party switch:
I decided to run for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania for one simple reason: I believe we need new leadership, new ideas, and new approaches in Washington. It’s become obvious that the old ways of doing business might have worked for the special interests, but they haven’t worked for the rest of us.
Nothing about today’s news regarding Senator Specter changes that, or my intention to run for the Democratic nomination to the Senate in 2010 – an election that is still a full year away.
How long do you give him?
(H/T: Englishlefty)