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In Pennsylvania, it's the Admiral Vs. the Firefighter
A key Congressional battle pits two local boys against each other. The Republican, a former volunteer fire chief, has been in power for 20 years but now faces a formidable candidate
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The military is the institution in our society that best reflects the
values of the Democratic Party," says retired Vice Admiral Joe
Sestak, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania's
Seventh District. This is a wonderful, underutilized political
technique, the "Huh? Tell me more!" statement. And the small
gathering of neighbors in Barbara and Charles Blum's Hershey's Mill
living room is all ears. Sestak explains that the military provides
universal health-care coverage and substantial educational
benefits—"I was able to get a Ph.D. from Harvard," he says—and it
has also
been a...
