Hoping to catch a key swing vote at a vulnerable moment, the labor group Americans Rights at Work is running a television ad in Pennsylvania calling on now-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter to support the Employee Free Choice Act. The ad notes Specter's prior support for the measure, as well as for President Obama's stimulus package, and wonders aloud if he'll stand with "Obama, Biden and the working families of Pennsylvania," or with "the greedy CEOs and Big Business lobbyists."

In a not-too-subtle reminder to Specter that the Senate's newest Democrat could use some friends, the ad urges viewers to tell Specter that Pennsylvania's for him.....as long as he's for the Employee Free Choice Act.

                                                                                                            -- Julie Kosterlitz