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LANCASTER - In a confrontational conclusion to the U.S. Senate Democratic primary debates, Bob Casey Jr. and his two challengers last night sparred over the role of special interests in politics, the Iraq war, and which one of them would be best able to defeat the incumbent, Rick Santorum (R., Pa.).
For almost two hours in a college gymnasium, Casey kept his focus on Santorum while Bucks County professor Chuck Pennacchio and Center City lawyer Alan Sandals escalated their attacks on the front-runner, attempting to draw differences with Casey on foreign and domestic issues.
Lot's of blogger coverage:
Fact-esque
Above Average Jane
Shlomo Boudreaux
Penn Patriot
Alex at Santorum Blog did the play by play and linked to just about everybody.
The post game call-in on PCN pissed me off. The 2 so called experts they had on were Casey cheerleaders and dismissed the other candidates. Why have an election if these guys have already decided it for us?
2 hours ago
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That anger is felt many who follow this race. If all we look at now are polls and money why do we need pundits anyway?
The truth and history of the situation points to a closely contested primary battle in which the winner will need only 4% of registered Democrats.
Feingold was outspent by more than Chuck will most likely be, by 2 party insiders and so he remained in single digits throughout the polling. He took over 70% of the voters.
These polls that are investigating the primary are only asking registered Dems. In order to determine who is likely to vote Gallup and other pollsters commonly ask about how much the voter knows about the candidate they intend to vote for. With Casey 77% don't know where he stands on the issue people know the most about him (abortion). They also find that 75%+ say they don't know enough about him.
Chuck's people support him because they are well informed of the issues. People who will come out and vote will get educated at some point and when they do they overwhelmingly support Chuck.
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