Specter Becomes Reliable Democratic Vote

By GottaLaff

I'd amend Taegan's title to say "a more reliable vote", since I don't have a whole lot of trust in Specter the Democrat:

Nate Silver notes that since Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) announced he would almost certainly challenge Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) in a Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, the formerly Republican senator has voted with his new party on 28 out of 29 contentious votes, or 97% of the time.

"Specter's overall party loyalty score since becoming a Democrat -- counting votes both before and after the primary challenge -- is 87%. This contrasts with the 44% of the time that he broke ranks to side with the Democratic on contentious votes while still a member of the Republican Party. He's basically been behaving like a mainline, liberal Democrat."

Good, but I still don't trust him.