Sen. Bob Casey was on stage in the Philadelphia suburbs, but in one striking way this was a different Bob Casey.
As he rattled off the stakes of this year’s election for a crowd of Democratic supporters, the first policy issue he cited was abortion rights.
“So much is on the line,” Casey said. “Women’s rights, workers’ rights, voting rights.”
Those are core topics for almost anyone in his party, but Casey had long stood out as a rare anti-abortion Democrat. Yet in early October in suburban Montgomery County, outside Philadelphia, the third-term senator railed against the Supreme Court decision ...