The Casey campaign put me on their email list. Which makes sense, seeing as I'm volunteering for them and all. Most of the messages are irrelevent to me (announcements about events in PA that I couldn't possibly attend, that sort of thing) but they do sometimes have more general information.
So far their mailing list has done a great job of reminding me why I dislike Rick Santorum. On the other hand, telling me why I should like Bob Casey? Not so much. I'm not at all comfortable with Casey's social conservatism, for instance his anti-choice stance. The only good thing I know about Casey is that he's not Santorum. And to be honest, that's enough for me.
It may be enough for the Casey people too. Today they sent me a flyer for a rally in Philadelphia. The flyer uses Santorum's name more often than Casey's: "help defeat Santorum," "our fight to oust Santorum," etc. Seems like maybe they know that Casey's best asset is Rick Santorum.
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Oh dear. Shades of Rick Lazio. I've never seen a more sure way to lose an election than making your whole campaign, "I'm not him" (or her, in Lazio's case). I don't care that he was Governor, he still needs to give people positive reasons to vote for him.
he wasn't governor! he was the governor's son. but yea, if i was still a PA resident i'd still be voting for him, just to get that embarrassment of a politician santorum out of office.
i've been engaging in debate with a candidate for PA's congress on his campaign manager's (a high school friend of mine) blog. i told him i thought it was hypocritical for him to think government should outlaw abortion, but shouldn't be able to enforce a smoking ban in businesses. good times!
I'm just glad that not ALL of the most embarrassing politicians are from Texas.
I agree that "I'm not the other guy" is a pretty weak campaign strategy, but Casey seems to be in good shape: he's been at least 10 points ahead in every poll for the past month. Of course there's still time for him to execute the classic Democrat maneuver and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Paul, I have two words for you: Jesse Helms.