Yeah, people do get that story wrong all the time.
However, I bet that it will be retold and retold. It plays to the perception that the Clintons can play quite rough, even against people in their own party. If PA voters like that, it helps Clinton. If not, it hurts her.
But it also reveals the split between different big players in the PA political establishment. And Casey and his dad are more popular than Rendell. Look for Casey to cut some ads for him.
These parts of Casey's reasons to support Obama were all pretty interesting and will be part of his political argument:
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_upd ate/20080328_Bob_Casey_to_endorse_Obama_ _join_bus_tour.html "Casey sees Obama as an "underdog" in the campaign who sacrificed at the beginning of his career to be a community organizer "in the shadows of the closed steel mills in Chicago," said a source close to Casey who is familiar with the endorsement decision but was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The source, reached by The Inquirer yesterday, said that Casey was also impressed with how Obama had stood up to the pressures of the campaign, including recent attacks over the racially incendiary remarks of his former pastor.
Casey's decision was also personal, motivated in part by the enthusiasm his four daughters - Elyse, Caroline, Julia and Marena - have expressed for Obama, the source said. "He thinks we shouldn't be deaf to the voices of the next generation."
Casey and his dad are more popular than Rendell?
that is soooooo nuts.
i worked pa in 92 and 06.
in 92, the Casey - Clinton blood fued began.
jr's a senator only because of the anti- santorum fever.
renddell totally crushd him when they ran against each other.
Casey, despite being a terrible campaigner consistently breaks statewide records in terms of votes. He, and his late father, are immensely popular here (for reasons I admit, I don't grasp.)
