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...Graf case is sure to make the lives of Navy recruiters more difficult. Shawn Smith is a retired Navy captain who - along with her husband, also a retired Navy captain - applauded their daughter's decision to join the Navy in 2007 after graduating from Notre Dame on a Navy ROTC scholarship. Erin Smith was "seriously considering" making the Navy a career, as her parents did, until she was assigned to the Cowpens. "Her experiences with Captain Graf definitely helped form her decision to do her time and leave the Navy," her mother says. "I was appalled that this happened, guilty...
...rubber stamp for his new party, he has since shifted leftward into its mainstream. He went from opposing a government-run public option on health care to supporting one and from voting for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to urging for its repeal. Specter has also reversed himself to support the controversial idea of pushing health care legislation through with "reconciliation," a parliamentary process that would get it past a filibuster. "That kind of cynical political opportunism turns people off. It's what people think is wrong with Washington," says Toomey. "Not everyone is going to agree with...
...overwhelming 229-72 vote. "I have been involved in many, many elections but never one quite as thrilling as this one," Specter said as he accepted the party's benediction. "I feel good about being a Democrat and being able to continue supporting those Democratic values." Obama has also come through for him, raising more than $2.1 million at a single event in September for the party and its new champion. (See a one-year evaluation of the White House stimulus...
...social issues - has been leading in most of the recent polls. He's raised more money than any other Senate challenger in the country, thanks in part to backing from the Club for Growth, a well-funded antitax organization, which Toomey ran from 2005 to 2009. He is also a favorite of Tea Party activists, who account for so much political energy on the right these days. "It's an uphill battle in the general - no ifs, ands or buts about it," says Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, who has thrown the force of his political operation behind Specter...
...reputation; the outing of Plame made these efforts potentially felonious. The subsequent investigation devolved into a petty attempt to nail Rove and Scooter Libby on perjury charges for denying they had talked to journalists, and Rove has reason to be outraged by the fishing expedition. But it's also a diversion from the real story...