Chris Matthews Senate Run Confirmed: Report [View All]

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FiveThirtyEight's Sean Quinn reports that MSNBC host Chris Matthews is, in fact, running for Senate in Pennsylvania:

Chris Matthews is in.

FiveThirtyEight has been hearing this for some time, but it took a trip to Georgia among the Georgia-runoff-congregated and well-connected Obama organizer throng to confirm.

According to multiple sources, who confirmed the Tip O'Neill staffer-cum-MSNBC host has negotiated with veteran Obama staffers to enlist in his campaign, Chris Matthews will run for United States Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010. Matthews, 62, will run as a Democrat. Arlen Specter, the aging Republican incumbent, will be 80 if he chooses to run for re-election.


Recent polls suggest that Matthews will have a hard time unseating Sen. Arlen Specter. Quinnipiac gives the Republican incumbent a double-digit lead:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/28/chris-matthews-senate-run_n_146949.html