Scenes from the Pennsylvania Senate Race

Pennsylvania Senate Race
Mark Peterson / Redux for TIME

The GOP Candidate
Even if Specter can survive the primary, he will have a stiffer challenge in the fall, when he is likely to face conservative Patrick Toomey. A loser to Specter in 2004 by a mere 17,000 votes, Toomey now leads the incumbent in recent polls.

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