News Why the Dems Can’t Count on Specter Arlen Specter likes it when he’s described as the best lawyer in the Senate; there are a lot of lawyers in its chambers.

First Posted: 10/15/2012 (AP) Arlen Specter, a pugnacious and prominent former moderate in the U.S. Senate who developed the single-bullet theory in President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and ...

Specter is leading his Democratic challenger, Rep. Joseph P. Hoeffel, 51 percent to 36 percent, with Constitution Party candidate Jim Clymer getting 6 percent, according to an Oct. 16-20 poll by ...