Posted on 05/03/2016 6:18:42 PM PDT by Milhous
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, lives along so many fault lines of American politics that he is especially sensitive to Trump tremors, which he fears could become an earthquake by November.
“I’m concerned,” he said. “Beating Donald Trump won’t be as easy as it might look.”
Casey is a pro-life, pro-gun Roman Catholic in a state that Democratic consultant James Carville once described as “Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between.” He is also an old-school Democrat and a new-school one: He's pro-union and wary of global trade; he defends Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare and same-sex marriage.
The mix works: Casey won re-election in 2012 -- the first Democratic senator in Pennsylvania to do so in half a century -- and ran well ahead of President Barack Obama that year. So he knows his people.
In Casey’s view, presumptive (if weakened) Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will do well in Philadelphia and some of its suburban counties, and probably on his own home turf of Scranton in the state's hardscrabble northeast.
“The problem will be out west,” he said, where what used to be called Reagan Democrats live in large numbers in cities and towns that have never recovered from economic recession and off-shored industrial jobs – and where resentment of Washington and the coastal establishment is as much a part of the terrain as coal seams and forests.
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If you or I did that. We’d be in Leavenworth.
Why isn’t she?
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Thanks!
Thanks lightman for the heads up
LOL - I love it. Hyperbole at its finest.
Thank you. I neglected to include that disclaimer. It’s Huffington policy to hammer their disclaimer nail *every* time the run a Trump story. They already hammered the nail all the way in, but they just *love* to hammer it over and over again. “To a man with a hammer every Trump story looks like a nail.”
Now that he’s got the nomination sewn up, Trump will revert to his former Democrat ways. Say goodbye to his hard-right anti-abortion and anti-immigrant positions to get the Freeper vote. This populist won’t say anything against Big-Labor positions. He’ll probably try to get to Hillary’s left on foreign trade issues. Hey, it turns out maybe The Wall wasn’t such a good idea...
I’d hold my nose and vote Trump if I thought it could make a difference. But as a freedom-loving small govt. type in a deep-blue state, I think I’ll vote for the former Republican governor of New Mexico.
Vote fraud will ensure a Hillary presidency.
I second that vote for one reason.
The cease fire is over, tomorrow the Democrat seminars and daily conference calls begin, The MSM will be told what to say and how to say it. The message will be unified. The death of a thousand cuts.
Win? He’s going to crush it. I just hope to heaven that he doesn’t turn out to be an Ahnold duplicate, or worse...
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