“And I decided to try to bring back a second major party in Philadelphia, which I think is very badly needed. So I changed my registration. I haven’t succeeded, Brian, but I’m still working on it.”
-Sen. Arlen Specter, explaining his first party switch — from Democrat to Republican in 1965 — to C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb in a 2001 episode of “Booknotes”
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