Because 2006 was a huge DemocRAT year where oodles of GOP incumbents got crushed and ignorant PA voters confused the "pro-life" Casey with his beloved (and dead) father of the same name. Next question.
>> WOMEN VOTE and if you’re married, you know they don’t forget!!! <<
So why didn't WOMEN VOTE against Rick Santorum in 2000, 1994, 1992, and 1990? He carried the entire state handily 6 years earlier, even as Al Gore was winning the state over George W. Bush. Santorum's position on birth control wasn't any different then than it is now. He's always been a very traditional social conservative and made no attempt to hide it.
Casey’s margin was very big, I harped on that point myself back when I was poopooing the idea of Santorum as a candidate many months ago.
But at this point who cares? This election is nationwide against a slightly unpopular Obama in 2012 not in a lean dem state in a year when Republicans were as popular as herpes against some scion who lived off of his father’s reputation and pretended to be pro-life.
Santorum is the guy that ran and stuck it out despite polling in the single digits for most of the race and polling shows he could run at least as competitively as supposedly electable RINO Mitt Romney. Case closed AFAIC.