Dems Betray Betrayer in Primary
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter on Tuesday lost a Democratic primary in his bid for a sixth term after taking the risky step of switching from the GOP.
Voters picked U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak as the party's nominee and rejected the 80-year-old Specter in his first Democratic campaign since his Republican Party defection.
With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Sestak received 520,479 votes, or 54 percent; Specter received 446,281 votes, about 46 percent.
Specter was famous for voting against his own party, even providing Clinton the one Republican "not guilty" vote during the impeachment trial. Democrats privately assured Specter he would be unchallenged if he switched parties and gave them a fillerbuster proof majority in the Senate last year, but they changed their mind when a backlash against incombants made him keeping the seat look unlikely. (What goes around, comes around.) See Chick's BUSTED!
Voters picked U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak as the party's nominee and rejected the 80-year-old Specter in his first Democratic campaign since his Republican Party defection.
With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Sestak received 520,479 votes, or 54 percent; Specter received 446,281 votes, about 46 percent.
Specter was famous for voting against his own party, even providing Clinton the one Republican "not guilty" vote during the impeachment trial. Democrats privately assured Specter he would be unchallenged if he switched parties and gave them a fillerbuster proof majority in the Senate last year, but they changed their mind when a backlash against incombants made him keeping the seat look unlikely. (What goes around, comes around.) See Chick's BUSTED!
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