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Centrists Flirt With Democrats, and the Party Rebuffs Them

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Centrists Flirt With Democrats, and the Party Rebuffs Them
The Capitol building in Pennsylvania's capital Harrisburg on Oct. 14, 2011. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images
Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—There is a battle going on here within the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, a formidable force of centrist, conservative, and liberal Democrats whose backgrounds range from union halls in the city to the businessmen and women who have spread out into the leafy suburbs that hug the Pittsburgh city limits.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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