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Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties puts the Democrats one seat closer to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Why the independent-minded senator is changing his political affiliation and what it means for the president's agenda and the future of the G.O.P.
Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report
David Winston, Republican pollster and President of the Winston Group. He also writes for Roll Call and is a CBS News consultant.
Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for "USA Today"
Tad Devine, political consultant; senior strategist to the 2004 Kerry campaign and to the 2000 Gore campaign; director of delegate selection in the 1988 Dukakis campaign.
How a colonial American farmer with a passion for plants and a group of eighteenth century explorers, botanists, and collectors triggered the English obsession with gardens and gardening.
Andrea Wulf, trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art in London, she is the author of two books and has written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times, The Garden and the Architects’ Journal.
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