Specter: Switch should be 'wake-up call' to GOP

It’s been a pretty exciting week in party politics. Republican Senator Arlen Specter has switched parties. He is now a member of the Democratic Party. In this article, he claims the Republicans have changed quite a bit since his election in 1980. He hopes his switch is seen as a “wake up call” for the Republican Party, which has become increasingly conservative as time goes on.