Tempting Specter

With Arlen Specter possibly being that 60th Senate Cloture vote and likely facing 2010 challenges from the right in the primary and from the left in the general, this rumor is interesting,

Senior officials with the powerful AFL-CIO have privately assured GOP Senator Arlen Specter that they’ll throw their full support behind him in the 2010 Senate race if he votes for the Employee Free Choice Act, a senior labor strategist working closely with the AFL on the issue tells me.

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