Arlen Specter deserves this loss. Joe Sestak is no FDR, but he is closer to the traditional Democrat of old than the Senate’s top party-switcher. And it may show that Democrats — or at least the Democratic grassroots — is ready to shake off the cobwebs.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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