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Article: Arlen Specter's charm offensive.(Politics)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 7, 2009
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PITTSBURGH Arlen Specter has been a Republican officeholder for more than 40 years, but you hardly would have known it Saturday when he made his debut in front of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.
Here, at the annual state committee meeting, Specter had his unofficial coming out party and he aimed to please. Using a teleprompter for his speech?"I wanted to express myself with precision," he said?and sporting a blue and red donkey tie, he told an audience of 300 Democratic elected officials and activists he felt "welcome and comfortable."
"Maybe it's no coincidence that I feel so comfortable with Democrats, because I've spent most of my life with ...