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But a year later, those calculations have been tossed upside down. Obama's poll numbers have come back to earth. And the filibuster-proof Senate majority that Specter's defection delivered to the Democrats vanished when Massachusetts voters handed Teddy Kennedy's old seat to Scott Brown. Democratic control of...
A Shifting Keystone Nowhere is the political shift more evident than in Pennsylvania, a quintessential swing state, where Specter now finds himself in the political fight of his life. Last year's party switch has left him exposed on both his left and his right in a 2010 political environment...
But on Tuesday night, Beck faced a foe unlike any other, a pasty, disgraced former one-term Democratic Congressman from New York, Eric Massa, who had resigned only hours earlier amid an ethics inquiry into allegations that he groped and sexually harassed some of his male employees over the years...
Massa had come on Fox to out-Beck Glenn Beck. Armed with the very same weapons - a deep sense of victimhood, outrage at the powers that be and remarkable personal candor - the Representative delivered a dizzying confessional. He admitted to sexless groping and tickling of his staff, sending inappropriate text...
But in Massa, Beck found a sort of liberal doppelgänger, a mesmerizing train wreck of a man who was impossible to undercut in the classic fashion. To many conservative allies of Beck, it probably didn't come as too much of a surprise. In recent days, prominent Republicans...