Senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania has left the Republican Party and offically become a Democrat today. In actuality, the change happened because the Republican Party left him.

"He said that the loss of several hundred thousand GOP voters who left the party in 2008 to vote in the Democratic presidential primary left the Pennsylvania Republican Party too conservative to support a moderate such as him. 'I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican Party,' Specter said.

After more than 28 years in the Senate, Specter acknowledged he was 'not prepared to have that record' obliterated by the conservative primary electorate."

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The change gives Democrats 60 seats in the Senate, meaning that the threat of fillibuster will lessen as the Senate works towards implementing Obama's policies to bring needed change to America.