This Just In

Arlen Specter will no longer be doing the balancing act between party and conscience. He's facing almost certain defeat in the Pennsylvania primary, and is switching parties.
A commenter points out that when Franken gets seated, the Dems will have a safe if narrow majority in the Senate.
I've had a soft spot for Specter ever since the anti-choice people went after him — he's pro-choice — and he barely survived.
Now they wingnuts are out in force to get him again, more proof that the R's are trapped and chewing off their own feet.

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