The Obama camp is celebrating the endorsemet of Pennsylvania Sen. The Obama camp is celebrating the endorsemet of Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey. The Associated Press reports on a heretofore unknown demographic group!
Obama strategists hope that Casey can help their candidate make inroads with the white working-class men who are often referred to as "Casey Democrats." This group identifies with the brand of politics Casey and his late father, a former governor, practiced - liberal on economic issues but supportive of gun rights and opposed to abortion. (Obama favors some gun-control measures and backs abortion rights.)
Also from Obama this morning comes a link to this Bloomberg News article, which describes Clinton as facing "a widening credibility gap" on issues such as her role in the Bosnian and Irish peace processes and her opposition to NAFTA. Obama's Bill Burton is also hawking a New Hampshire Union-Leader editorial that gets irate over a Bill Clinton statement that questioned New Hampshire's early place in the primary process in order to assert that Florida and Michigan should have their votes counted. But one thing I really can't get worked up about in late March is how New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner feels.
Meanwhile, the Clinton folks are hawking Paul Krugman, who today compares Clinton's economic package favorably to both Obama's and John McCain's.
--Dana Goldstein
