Word: switches
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...breast," she says. "Well, sometimes I have other things to do." It takes her half the time to pump and bottle-feed as it would to breast-feed, because she can express milk from both breasts at the same time, rather than waiting for the baby to switch from one side to the other...
...time, Specter's switch was hailed as a heady affirmation that Barack Obama had ushered the nation into a new, post-partisan era. With the defection of one of its last Senate moderates, what was left of the GOP appeared to be careering rightward, to a hard-core base that was beginning to resemble a cult as much as a political party. (See 10 elections that changed America...
...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 that has turned decidedly toxic for incumbents. This is despite the fact that the Democratic establishment has locked arms around its 80-year-old convert. After Specter became a Democrat, he spent the next few months wooing party officials in all 67 Pennsylvania counties and reminding them of all the federal...
...mere 17,000 votes of the million cast in the Republican primary - which is one reason Specter realized he couldn't win a rematch against him four years later in a primary that would be decided by a smaller, more conservative party base. After Specter's party switch, Toomey was down in the polls by 20 points against Specter in a general-election matchup. The GOP scouted unsuccessfully for a more moderate candidate, like popular former governor Tom Ridge. So dark were Toomey's prospects that Senator Orrin Hatch, the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, lamented...
...independent voice," insists Charles Johns, an Allentown retiree and lifelong Democrat. Johns says he has voted for Specter ever since watching the Bork hearings on C-SPAN. But for Debbie Goldstein, 54, who changed her registration to Republican to vote for him when she was 18, Specter's party switch was the last straw. "I always thought Specter was good for Pennsylvania. He fought to keep the Navy Yard open," says Goldstein, who is active in local Republican politics in the village of Plymouth Meeting. "But now he's kind of burned-out, more like a puppet being pushed around...