Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court ...
Senator Arlen Specter, 80, lost the Democratic primary in his bid for a sixth term Tuesday night. He had switched parties last year after being a Republican for decades. Voters chose two-term Rep. Joe ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Centrism and just plain survival made Arlen Specter part of the nation's political fabric for nearly half a century, his cancer-fighting, party-switching story as much about evading ...