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Bob Casey to come out for Obama!
MSNBC reported this morning that the enormously popular Pennsylvania Senator, Bob Casey, will today announce his endorsement of Barack Obama & will campaign around the state with him.
Yesterday Obama was standing with Bloomberg & Voelker in New York, today it's Casey IN PA. I think the fat lady is about to sing. This thing could be over before we thought!
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March 28, 2008 8:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
How did the idiotic joke start? I'm asking on behalf of all the newbies who want to know but are too afraid of looking uncool to ask :)
March 28, 2008 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
In the beginning of 2008, it seemed there were a lot of Clinton supporters that always seemed to find the bright side in everything. No matter how bad us ordinary folk (i.e., latte-sipping, prius-driving, birkenstock-wearing Obama supporters) might think something looked for Clinton, they'd seem to think it'd actually help her. Into this state of affairs, idiotic appeared. He would claim that xyz was EXCELLENT NEWS!!! FOR HILLARY!!! At first, a lot of people thought he was serious. However, as it became quite clear that these posts were much more likely to show up when things looked worst for Hillary it wasn't long before everyone was in on the joke. There was some confusion also in the beginning as to whether anyone could proclaim EXCELLENT NEWS or whether it was just idiotic. It is now generally accepted that it must be proclaimed by idiotic. Everyone else is just a poseur.
March 28, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I thought, but you know how you listen to a joke and *think* you get it, but don't really. I hate that! Thanks :)
March 29, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's great news, but *really* how helpful are these endorsements? I mean, Obama has picked up some GREAT endorsements...in states he lost.
Does anyone have any info on whether endorsements can be ACTUALLY helpful to a candidate? Were Kerry and Kennedy blips, or is it pretty typical that big endorsements do more for national momentum than they do for state votes?
March 28, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Burned -
I think it's more about a sense that the gates are creaking open for supers and other major endorsements to try to bring a halt to this thing.
Because it's now semi-conventional wisdom that it's mathematically impossible for her to catch up or surpass Obama w/out a series of parting the Red Sea type events - the idea is that w/ Richardson-like, and now Casey-like public declarations of support the calls for her to bow out will grow louder.
So the really interesting thing is that his campaign has been playing the lower-PA-expectations game the last few weeks - so now anything w/in 10pts is considered a 'win' for him. But now we have him seriously contesting by going on a cross-state jaunt w/ a well-respected Sen. who has political pedigree in the state - whose constituency/backing is exactly the demo of blue-collar-male-Catholics Obama needs inroads w/.
So this may actually be a contest if not a win - but the significance of a here-to-fore 'promising to-remain-neutral' guy like Casey on the heels of Richardson is the beginning of softening ground.
March 28, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotcha - I got the superdelegate part, but wondered if anyone actually thought that a Casey endorsement could win Obama the state. I think it's highly unlikely, but if a win is a 10 point loss then that sounds possible...
March 29, 2008 9:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is another example of the chickens coming home to roost: Bill Clinton did not allow Bob Casey Sr. to speak at the 1992 convention, b/c he was pro-life.
Bobby Casey Jr. probably did not like how his father was disrespected.
March 28, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why, optimist, does a major endorsement of Obama have to be tied to a petty resentment?
March 28, 2008 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
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