Rumors that Rep. Joe Sestak, (D-PA) intends to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) in the Pennsylvania Democratic primaries have been confirmed, TPMDC...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Sestak, a former Navy vice admiral, says he's seriously considering challenging newest Democrat Arlen Specter in next year...
Showbiz 411 | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Arlen Specter must have really been on the fence about changing political parties--right up to the end. On Monday, April 21st--one week befor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Officers with the powerful Service Employees International Union are meeting Tuesday with newly minted Democrat Arlen Specter, a labor official confir...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Arlen Specter freely acknowledges that his switch from Republican to Democrat was driven by politics as much as principles. "I am unwilling to have my...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
Pennsylvania needs a Democratic Senator from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The first wave of speculation over the implications of Sen. Arlen Specter's defection to the Democratic Party surrounded one of the day's most hotly c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Reaction from top GOP officials to the defection of Sen. Arlen Specter has been decidedly mixed. The less orthodox are interpreting the news as a vali...
Los Angeles Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 05.25.2011
Reporting from Washington -- When a Senate Republican left his party in 2001, elevating the Democrats to majority status, one member of the GOP was es...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is becoming a Democrat. "I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary," said Specter in a st...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele was speedy and harsh in his reaction to the news that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) would switch pa...
David Frum | Posted 05.25.2011
For years, many in the conservative world have wished for an ideologically purer GOP. With Arlen Specter's defection, their wish has been granted. Happy?
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
How much more can the Republicans take? Demoralized, shrinking and seemingly lacking an agenda beyond the word "no," Republicans today saw their ranks...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.28.2009
White House aides said on Tuesday that they had no advanced knowledge that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter would be switching party affiliation from R...
Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 05.25.2011