Senator Bob Casey, a champion of the working-class Catholic voters at the core of Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania coalition, endorsed Barack Obama yesterday, the latest swipe between two warring dynasties whose battles have defined the Democratic Party's search for a modern identity.
"This is about all of us, of all ages, across this state and across America," Casey said at a rally with Obama, where he attributed his endorsement to the enthusiasm Obama's candidacy has generated among Casey's four daughters.
Casey's decision not only assuaged his children, but avenged slights against his father - a popular two-term governor Pennsylvania - at the hands of Bill Clinton, with whom he feuded throughout the 1990s as the two emerged as leaders of competing wings of a party in transition.
Casey, who set off after the endorsement with Obama for a six-day bus tour across the state, had said that he would remain neutral before Pennsylvania's April 22 primary. But, he told reporters, he had recently become convinced that he should take his private feelings public.
"I believe in this guy like I have never believed in a candidate in my life," Casey said.
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