Posted by
Billy on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:38:10 PM
Pennsylvania
Sen. Arlen Specter will switch parties and run for reelection in November 2010 as a Democrat, he announced today, a decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for the Senate and President Obama's agenda.
Specter told reporters that he received a "bleak" poll Friday from his advisers that showed virtually no chance of him winning in the GOP primary next spring against Pat Toomey, a former Republican House member who recently led the conservative Club for Growth.
He said that the loss of several hundred thousand GOP voters who left the party in 2008 to vote in the Democratic presidential primary left the Pennsylvania Republican Party too conservative to support a moderate such as him. "I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican Party," Specter said.
(The truth is Mr. Specter has been a Democrat in his heart and views for awhile. So my view is let the Democrats have him. A mistake President Bush made was to back Mr. Specter and others just because they had GOP by their name. Below are some links where you can read more on this issue.)