Posted on 10/16/2005 5:53:16 AM PDT by salenaz
Swingers
By Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Sunday, October 16, 2005
What motivates people to leave a lifelong relationship? How can they fracture a bond that began right out of high school and had the approval of parents and grandparents alike?
How can they cross that dangerous line -- essentially becoming a swinger?
The answer is easy: principles. Yes, principles. When the party they've been married to in name only changed its principles, they became swingers. Swing voters, that is.
Since the upset U.S. Senate win of Rick Santorum in 1994, Westmoreland County has trended Republican. After years of traditional Democrat lever-pulling, it broke from its western cousins and went right of Left.
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Most people with an ounce of good sense have already joined the Republican party. Those with half an ounce are still Democrats but cross over on election day.
Nice insult to future Republicans.
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