The GOP takes an early aim at Carney: Conservative-voting Democrat in Republican district is still vulnerable, watchers say.

From: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) | Date: June 7, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Bill O'Boyle

Jun. 7--If you talk like a Republican, walk like a Republican and often vote like a Republican, but you're a Democrat, your chance for survival may be threatened -- at least in the 10th Congressional District.

Freshman Congressman Christopher Carney, less than six months into his first two-year term, is already the subject of radio and television ads that both praise and attack his performance to date.

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