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...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 every one of my positions and policies. But people know that I believe in what I say and that I will do what I say I will do." Meanwhile, Sestak warns fellow Democrats that they can't count on Specter...
Sestak, who grew up in Delaware County, has the potential to draw the liberal Democratic base away from Specter in the May 18 primary. He's striking a chord with those who have spent the past three decades working to get Specter out of office. "I think there's been too much Republican lite and not enough real Democrats around," says Darwin Roseberry, a Democratic committeeman from West Rockhill Township who showed up to hear Sestak speak at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Bucks County. "Specter is not a real Democrat...
...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 to Politico.com, "I don't think there is anybody in the world who believes he can get elected Senator there." (See pictures from the Pennsylvania Senate race...
Principle - or Opportunism? Ultimately, what is going to save Specter or sink him is his record. It's hard to think of anyone else in politics who has charted a path so quirky and defiant of an ideological label. In fact, last year marked the second time he has switched parties; he started his career as a Democrat but became a Republican when he decided to run for Philadelphia district attorney in 1965. He is pro-choice and pro-gay rights. Conservatives have never forgiven him for sinking Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork in 1987; liberals...
Tough races, Specter adds, are nothing new for him. "It's a challenge, and that's what I've been doing for a lot of years. I think I'm on the right side of the issues," he says. "There are a lot of things I want to do in the Senate." The question now is whether Pennsylvania voters see Arlen Specter as a solution to America's broken politics - or a symptom of them...