PODCAST: Senator Swaps Teams, Joins Dems
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Sen.Arlen Specter (Pa.) announced today that he is leaving the Republican Party to run as a Democrat in his 2010 re-election bid, giving Democrats the chance for a 60-seat supermajority if Al Franken comes out on top in the contested Minnesota Senate race.
Republican campaign strategist and AOL Politics Daily blogger Joshua Sharp joins Beltway Mashup "Mixtape Edition" to talk about how the moderate has split from the GOP in the past, how the 2010 Republican primary was shaping up and what the switch means for Congress as Washington ushers in President Obama's 100th day in office.Â
