Embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will find out whether switching parties was the right career move in his quest for a sixth term.
Specter and his challenger, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, were campaigning Tuesday in the hours before polls close in Pennsylvania's too-close-to-call Democratic primary.
Specter has held the seat since 1981 and is endorsed by the Democratic Party. He's running his first Senate campaign as a Democrat after he switched parties last year.
Speaking at his suburban Philadelphia polling place, Sestak called Specter a “career politician” who switched parties to keep his job and can't fix the country's ills.
Specter, a longtime moderate, says he has no regrets over supporting President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill. That vote angered GOP voters and prompted Specter's switch.
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