Specter wants fellow party-switcher Coleman to win

Perhaps party-switching is the tie that binds. Sen. Arlen Specter — who started out his political life as a registered Democrat, then was elected as a GOP candidate in 1965 and, as of last week, now calls himself a Democrat again — has come out in support of Democrat-turned-Republican Norm Coleman, who’s still hoping to beat Al Franken to fill Minnesota’s open senate seat. In a preview of Sunday’s New York Times Magazine interview, Specter says, “There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.” He goes on to say that a Coleman victory is “about as likely as my becoming a Democrat.”

PoliticalWire’s Taegen Goddard’s analysis: “If Specter is looking for a Democratic primary opponent, this statement will certainly help him get one.”