Coming from a Pennsylvanian, I think this will be one hell of a race. The advantage in the debates goes to Rick- from what I've heard Casey is a lousy debater and is terrible at closing out campaings. it should be interesting.
Clearly you live right down the road from me - I went to grad school there in the 80s.
coming from NOT a Pennsylvanian ... I've never really belieeved that Santorum would lose. Casey has the name advantage and cuts into those Dems who are social conservatives (both of them!) but Santorum REALLY knows how to campaign and by mid-October, that's what counts.
Help me here .. my memory is that Santorum won his first race without any significant backing from the GOP organizations? Like it was a sleeper race ?