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 == New photo == 

 Someone asked for a more recent picture awhile ago...I'm not sure why the comment was deleted. His Senate website doesn't seem to have any recent pictures; does anyone have a newer picture? 

 I found a good photo at a PA league of women voters and posted it today.   

 Where did it go, then? The present one is terribly outdated.   

 :This is still a problem. The current photo is so old as to be almost unrecognizable. -  

 :: I concur. The photo in the article looks at least 20 years old. A more recent photo is needed. I would not, however, be opposed to putting the current photo somewhere else in the article. 

 ::: I was actually about to post a new section about this, but it seems it's already a noted issue. I didn't even recognize him when I saw the picture. This is pretty important. Someone needs to get on this. I'm a pretty new editor, so I'm not entirely familiar with the procedure needed to insert pictures and cite them, but maybe we should stop talking about it and just do it. Nobody appears to have any objections.  

  

 The picture shown at the top of the page is the most recent one that has been put out by Arlen's press office. I formerly worked as an intern in the D.C. office, and while I should make it clear that I am not responding officially, this is simply my knowledge that I wish to impart on the WikiCommunity. The 2nd picture down on the page was Arlen's original bio picture (commonly referred to as the ""Bar Mitzvah picture"" around the office). Also, if you look closely at the bottom-left of the newest picture, you'll notice something else 'poking' into the frame. This is the shoulder of Senator Specter's Chief of Staff, Scott Hoeflich. Arlen doesn't smile when he's the only one in the picture. 

 Hope this info was helpful, entertaining, distracting, et cetera. 

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 ==Concerns About Re-election Passage, Hoefel/Specter Race== 

 :I could be mistaken, but I don't recall many observers asserting that Specter had moved too far to the right in order to win his last campaign for that seat.  

 :Aside from making some concessions to the Bush administration with respect to facilitating the confirmation of prospective federal judges I don't think he embraced mainstream conservative Republicanism at all.  

 :In fact, he condoned the decision by some union locals to produce Specter-Kerry lawn signs.  

 :If anything, most people were of the view that conservatives staying home-or voting, but withholding their votes from Specter-would pose more of a challenge to his re-election.  

 :Plus, the way his victory is described is a bit misleading.  

 :Yes, in comparison to most Senate races-where the incumbent faces no real opposition-Specter's victory was ""narrow,"" but in comparison to other races he has contested-for example, his razor-thin victory over his female opponent in 1992-his margin of victory was rather large.  

 

 == Texas == 
 Putting WikiProject Texas here so the bot will not retag it.   
 :Out of morbid curiosity, why is it that the bot feels that this page should be tagged as WikiProject Texas?    

 ==NARAL== 

 The following parenthetical statement should be removed: 
 **(although he recieved a 20% rating from NARAL, indicating a pro-life record) 

 as NARAL's criteria are extremely partisan and do not accurately express stance on abortion in an NPOV manner.  His 20% rating comes from a budget issue he voted against and some judicial nominees he supported.  Not making abortion a hot-button automatic rubber-stamp issue is very different from being Pro-Life. 

 == References == 

 Why did this article use the non-standard section heading ""footnotes"" instead of the standard ""References""?  I changed it to use ""References"". 

 Why have contributors left thos references as simple inline inline links?  Inline links really really suck.  If they expire then no-one can fix the article by searching for a mirror, or an alternative source.  Please everybody, if you are the person adding a reference try t