What Specter's defection means
The really interesting story with is not so much , but the deeper issue of what it says about change in America. Or change in Pennsylvania to be precise.
If Arlen Specter could have won as a Republican he would have stayed a Republican - but Pennsylvania voters have been on a trajectory that takes them further and further away from the causes and concerns of the Bush-era Republican party, in particular on issues of religious social conservatism (whose strange death I chronicled in ).
Remember Rick Santorum? Who could forget. But where is he now? Sarah Palin? Ditto.
This is where I take issue with .
If God were back, Mr Specter would still be a Republican...
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