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Those were all contributing reasons, but I think the most important reason was that Casey, Jr. was effective in hiding out and letting his surrogates do all the work of campaigning for him. His father was a popular former governor who stood up to the Democrat establishment in the 1992 convention over abortion and threatened to do the same in 1996 until failing health preventing him from doing so.

Senior died tragically in 2000 after a lingering illness and Junior rode the wave of sympathy to his own political career which reached its zenith in 2006. The Casey family was to Pennsylvania in 2006 basically what the Kennedy family was to New York and Massachusetts in the late 1960s. As long as Junior can avoid any real debate or confrontation, he will continue to bask in that glow even though it will wane with time.

No Republican could have beaten a Casey in 2006.

The GOP has an uphill battle in 2012 even though Junior has been basically nothing but an Obama stooge and Obama is widely unpopular here. Junior also hasn't said or done anything serious enough to get a lot of people p*ssed off. Indeed, his handlers carefully control his public appearances so that he appears before nothing but friendly crowds. Arlen Specter, at least, had the courage to face the public unscreened and unscripted. As did, of course, Rick Santorum.

And, BTW, the Charter School charge turned out to be totally bogus. The Santorum family owned real estate in Penn Hills, paid property taxes and occupied the place when Dad was home from Washington on business. They had every right to use the Cyber School option for their kids as bonafide taxpayers in the district. The Penn Hills school board member who made it an issue turned out to be a Democrat party hack whose own son was recently convicted here of being part of a home burglary ring. But this is now and then, it wasn't the truth that mattered, it was a fake narrative which was needed to sway a few votes which was, of course, picked up by the media.

occupied the place when Dad was home from Washington on business

No they didn't, the house was completely VACANT no furniture, no nothing.. they never occupied the home EVER, stop with the nonsense. In fact the home did get rented out to tenants at one point, the Santorums never occupied the house, temporarily or otherwise, but claimed it as their residence..

I pay property taxes on rental properties I own, but I don't claim my residence in them when I live somewhere else.. you are spreading a complete lie on this one... better get your facts straight.