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Pennsylvania's U. S. Senate Primary: Can Pat Toomey Upset Arlen Specter?
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| Last Edited | *crickets chirp* Sep 29, 2003 01:22pm |
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| Media | Website - PoliticsPA |
| News Date | Monday, September 29, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "U.S. Senator Arlen Specter is under an aggressive assault from his party's activist conservative wing as he attempts to win an unprecedented fifth term as a Pennsylvania Senator. Stories in Human Events, the National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal in varying degrees have raised the prospect that Specter is vulnerable. His detractors have been motivated by the strong candidacy of Lehigh Valley Congressman Pat Toomey. Toomey's challenge on the surface appears to be the Senator's most serious primary opponent since his initial election to the Senate in 1980.
Toomey has for the better part of a year waged an aggressive campaign in spite of the support Specter has received from a wide range of Republican leaders, including President Bush, Vice President Cheyney, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, and virtually the entire Republican establishment in Pennsylvania, conservatives and moderates alike. The Toomey-Specter race pits much of the Republican leadership against many of the party's most committed conservative activists. Included among Toomey's endorsers are 23 of the State House's most conservative legislators. This internal struggle is essentially a conflict between pragmatism and ideology."
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