Bird’s-Eye View

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. dropped by the Intelligencer Journal on Monday afternoon to talk about a couple of minor, inconsequential things - the war in Iraq, the subprime mortgage crisis, alternative energy development … and, you know, that little backyard brawl between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (please sense the sarcasm in this opening paragraph).
Casey, […]

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Sitting in front of the ol’ television watching Tim Russert on Meet the Press with Gov. Ed Rendell and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., both surrogates for the Democratic presidential candidates.
Rendell starts out with making Clinton out to be the underdog, which is odd since she’s up in all the polls. And you can already […]

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Tim Russert will be in the middle of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and Gov. Ed Rendell for Meet The Press on Sunday morning.
Oh, that’s fantastic! It’s like the 2002 primary all over again.

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Here’s Obama’s oil advertisement running in Pennsylvania starting this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdOK4L868cI

And Clinton’s first Pennsylvania ad, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlkfpZbc8OY

Gawd, I love YouTube.

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In the New York Times today:
A person close to Mr. Casey said that the Senator had traveled to Florida over Easter and that rain had forced him to stay inside and he began to think more seriously about an endorsement. “He spent a lot of time thinking about it,” this person said, and he came to […]

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You know, if anyone’s job is on the line in this presidential election, let’s not forget about Howard Dean, the chairman of the DNC. According to G. Terry Madonna of Franklin & Marshall College in a story I wrote this week, the Democrats have a lot going for them in this election - an unpopular […]

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Nobody saw this coming.
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has said he would stay out of the fray between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but he’s decided to endorse Obama and join him for the upcoming bus tour.
The impact?
Obama strategists hope that Casey can help their candidate make inroads with the white working-class men who are often […]

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