Recently minted Democrat, Arlen Specter, may be ready to flip-flop on the most important legislation for big labor this Congress, Card-Check, saying “prospects are pretty good” that he’ll be able to support a version of the legislation. When Specter defected to the Dems several weeks ago, he made a point to say that he would still not be supporting the legislation that would take away the right to secret ballot elections for unions in the workplace and force most of America’s businesses under the fist of union oppression. Of course, with Specter, anything can change, especially when he may be facing a primary opponent.

A “Draft Sestak” movement got a boost Monday when the vast majority of respondents to an online straw poll by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee urged Rep. Joe Sestak to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in next year’s Democratic senatorial primary.

More than 8 of 10 of those who responded to the unscientific poll — more than 7,500 across the county, including nearly 1,000 in Pennsylvania — backed Sestak in a bid to take on Specter, who switched from the Republican to Democratic Party last month to avoid likely defeat in the Republican primary.

MoveOn.org also has taken the temperature of their members in the Keystone State and found that “about 85 percent of its 170,000 members in Pennsylvania would consider supporting a Democratic challenger against Specter.” That same poll though also showed Specter the way out of his precicament, “the poll found that 90 percent of MoveOn’s Pennsylvania members would consider supporting Specter if he got behind more of the president’s policies.” Thus, Arlen changes his position on Card-Check, gets an a-okay from the unions and makes his new liberal friends a little happier. Ah, the life of a defector.