Casey: "I believe in this guy like I've never believed in a candidate in my life, except my father"

[scheming daemons]

Article about today's events in my neck of the woods:


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080329/D8VMP3880.html



Those of you outside of PA don't really understand this. Bob Casey's demographic in PA is Clinton's demographic. This is huge.


Lots of old catholics in SW Pa will be giving Obama another look SIMPLY because of Casey's words today.

[babylonsister]

1. Rec'd! I do, too, but that's a helluva endorsement!

:toast:

[Cant trust em]

2. Obama inspires someone, must be another one of those cultists. NT

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Headline: "Obama Gets Boost; Clinton Urged to Quit"

:D

[depakid]

4. "giving Obama another look SIMPLY because of Casey's words today."

For any thinking person's sake, I hope that isn't true.

[scheming daemons]

5. You don't understand how influential the Casey brand is on PA Catholics....

...

Lots of old-timers saying things like, "If Bobby likes the guy... maybe I need to take another look."

[depakid]

6. I can read and listen

Which is why I wrote what I did.

[WinkyDink]

14. Maybe you need to look at the Rendell vs. Casey, Jr., bout for governor, 2002:

"Edward G. Rendell, the former mayor who repolished this city's image in becoming a national Democratic leader, won his party's nomination today for governor, soundly defeating Robert P. Casey Jr., Pennsylvania's auditor general, in the most expensive, television-steeped primary in state history.

With 97 percent of the precincts reporting, Mr. Rendell led by more than 125,000 votes, with a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6D91038F931A15756C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

There are more than Catholics here.

[Cant trust em]

21. Isn't that the point of all endorsements?

Ed Rendell endorses Clinton so I should vote for her.

[dailykoff]

7. Whoa.

Casey + Caroline = dyn-o-mite!

:woohoo:

[CatnHat]

8. To the OP-- Way OFF Base

Bob Casey is NOT well liked in PA, how do I know, I am from Western PA and the only reason Casey, Jr. endorsed Obama is because of the on-going freud his father Gov. Casey, Sr. had with Bill Clinton way back in 1992.

. . and I will add that Bob Casey, Jr. only won in PA by default against Rick Santorum. Hell, anyone in PA would vote for anyone that ran against Santorum.

Bob Casey, Jr. has as much clout among Democrats here as Rick Santorum. Look at Casey's voting record in the Senate. He is more republican than McCain; and people here know that.

[dkf]

10. So I guess Hillary didn't want Casey's endorsement then?

Bwahahahah!

You are killing me!

[CatnHat]

11. Hillary is doing just fine

Gov. Ed Rendell, Mayor of Philly, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Mayor of Erie, so on and so on. . .

Just telling you that Casey is a drip; and not well-liked in PA. It's general knowledge here. Couldn't care less, as the majority of Pennsylvanians couldn't care less with that piss poor endorsement.

[WinkyDink]

15. Not the point, is it? The point is that this will HELP Obama WIN, and it will NOT.

[MADem]

12. Well, we saw how much (not) Senatorial endorsements helped in Massachusetts...

I think it's an interesting endorsement in that he's a rightwinger, for all intents and purposes, supporting the supposedly liberal, but actually quite corporate candidate.

Interesting detail you provided there--makes sense. So the guy is "revenging" for his "deddy" eh? Sounds like someone else we know!

[scheming daemons]

17. Yep... they turned a 30-point Obama loss into only a 15-point loss...

....

[MADem]

22. Ah, and you know that, because you believe the polls!

http://www.command-post.org/2004/2_archives/011446.html

[scheming daemons]

16. Not well liked? He carried 55% vs Santorum in WESTERN PA....

...and he has a currently very high 62% approval rating.

[MH1]

23. Yeah but those 62%

don't count.

[SunsetDreams]

9. awesome endorsement, thank you nt

[WinkyDink]

13. Anti-choice. NOT Clinton's "demographic".

[scheming daemons]

18. Working-class catholics.....

yep.

[WinkyDink]

19. Casey pere et fils gave PA's Reagan Democrats a reason to vote "Democratic" again, even if it's a

Conservative travesty of it.

[Cant trust em]

20. I don't think that either Clinton or Obama's demographic is anti-choice

One might have less of a pro-choice record than the other, but if either of them were specifically pro-life neither of them would stand a chance.

[Yael]

24. Thanks for posting

Much appreciated Casey taking a stand and showing leadership on this.

[sueragingroz]

25. is he ever in for a rude awakening ... /nt

[mckeown1128]

26. kick. nt