THE RIGHTY & THE SWITCH HITTER

From: Pittsburgh City Paper | Date: March 17, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

FACED WITH AN INCREASINGLY RIGHT-LEANING REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CONSERVATIVE PRIMARY OPPONENT PAT TOOMEY, ARLEN SPECTER'S SWITCH-HITTING DAYS MAY BE NUMBERED

What's a Republican? Ten-month-old Vanessa clearly has no clue. And yet she's about to play a bit part in a political battle that may help settle that question at least in Pennsylvania, and possibly in the U.S. Senate

Vanessa and her 18-year-old mother, Mary, occupy one of a row of chairs arrayed along a wall of the Community Room at Washington Hospital. Both long walls are lined with teen mothers and fathers, dressed in drool-on-me-casual ...

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