Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies

Harrisburg : PA : USA | Oct 14, 2012 at 12:17 PM PDT

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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 nominations, died Sunday...Specter, who announced in late August that he was battling cancer, died at his home in Philadelphia... FULL ARTICLE AT Community News

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