In a move aimed at political self preservation, Sen. Arlen Spector has moved across the aisle and joined the democratic party in order to try and win re-election to the senate.
According to the Washington Post: ” Specter’s political standing in Pennsylvania has become increasingly tenuous in recent years. His record as a moderate, combined with the shrinking GOP base in the Keystone State, would make a general election difficult, and Toomey, who came within two percentage points of defeating Specter in 2004, was leading in public polls by double digits heading into next April’s GOP primary.
Specter received his own final poll Friday, an assessment he called “bleak.” He ultimately chose to cast his lot with Democrats, he said in a news conference yesterday, because “I am not prepared to have my 29-year record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.”
A handful of Pennsylvania Democrats had been considering pursuit of the Senate nomination, but potential opposition to Specter began to melt yesterday as the would-be contenders learned that he would have support from Obama and practically every leading Democrat in Washington.”
I guess country first doesn’t apply anymore.
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