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...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 dollars he had brought home over the years. It paid off. The state Democratic committee endorsed him in February with an 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...
...question is whether Pennsylvania voters will see those kinds of moments as evidence of principle or opportunism. As I followed the candidates around the Philadelphia area recently, I found both sentiments. "He's an 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...
...doesn't help Specter's case that he had been vowing not to switch parties practically right up until the moment that he did. Only weeks before, he had argued that it was vital that he stand as a 41st Republican vote in the Senate: "If there's a Democrat in my place, they'll be able to do anything they want...
...Specter professes that he has found a comfortable home in his new party. "Many, many, many people have told me, 'You're the only Republican I ever voted for. Now it's easier,' " he says. What's happening to him, he insists, is a function of larger forces at work. The Republican Party's "sole calculation is defeating Obama in 2012," he says. "The whole country is caught in the cross fire. I would not say no to the stimulus package when it looked to me that the country was about to slide into a 1929 Depression. After my stimulus...
...that pattern holds, Maliki's State of Law coalition would likely emerge with a plurality of the vote; there are, after all, probably twice as many Shi'ites as there are Sunnis in Iraq's electorate, even though hundreds of thousands more Sunnis appear to have voted this time compared with 2005's turnout. But Maliki is unlikely to win a majority, and would need coalition partners - perhaps from among the Kurdish nationalist parties that again polled strongly enough in their own areas to potentially earn a kingmaking role in Baghdad, or from the Sadrists and other Shi'ite Islamist...