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Will Specter Be the Last to Go?

The GOP may have lost Arlen Specter and surrendered Pennsylvania, but John Batchelor asks: Can they find the courage to keep their rising stars and not cede more political ground?

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Arlen Specter saw the gravestone that awaited him in the elephant graveyard of the Republican Party and, like Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Future, chose another fate.

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