Quote Originally Posted by homer13j View Post
This is really no big deal. Or at least not as big as the news media makes it out to be.

Specter's been voting with the Democrats for many years - he's only making it official.
True but what bothers me is that any politician can swap parties after being elected. Arlen is only doing that for survival. Then again, maybe he was a Republican only because that was his best chance of getting elected in the first place.

How would people react if Obama decided to switch to Republican? A lot of people elected him based on the fact that he was not Republican.