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...will not be embarased [sic], because, well, I will be dead.' GEORGE SODINI, writing in his online journal before killing four people, including himself, and injuring 15 others in a rampage at a Pennsylvania fitness center...
...paper, perhaps, Representative Joe Sestak seems to be on a quixotic mission - to unseat Arlen Specter, a 30-year incumbent Senator who is probably the most successful politician in Pennsylvania history. And he's got to do it all in nine months with less money than Specter, little name recognition outside his district in the Philadelphia suburbs and the near unanimous disapproval of the state's powerful Democratic establishment...
Surprisingly, many of the state's veteran political observers and activists say no. "It's going to require an insurgency campaign, kind of a storming the gates with pitchforks and torches kind of campaign," says strategist Mark Nevins, who advised Hillary Clinton in her successful primary campaign in Pennsylvania last year. "That is difficult to run but can be very effective in this kind of environment...
...some nationally in what's known as the Netroots movement of progressive bloggers and Internet users - the same people that helped Democrat Ned Lamont upset longtime Democratic incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary in 2006. Lieberman quickly switched to independent and won his seat back anyway, but Pennsylvania law would prevent Specter from doing the same if he loses the primary...
...Sunshine State, and his son has endorsed Rubio. Crist will still have a huge advantage in money and name recognition, but when choosing between a Republican and a Republican, Republicans usually pick the Republican. It's the same phenomenon that could doom party-switching Senator Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary; partisans don't often reward bipartisanship. "Crist has focused on the Arlen Specter wing of the Republican Party," says Palm Beach County GOP chairman Sid Dinerstein. "Rubio could be the future of a real Republican Party...