Robert P. Casey, Jr.

The completion of U.S. Route 219 from Somerset to Meyersdale would not have been possible had it not been for the hard work of our area legislators. In 2008, when the toll credit debacle was discovered, a meeting was set up in Harrisburg with then...

The super PAC striving to keep Senate Democrats in the majority released its Pennsylvania ad Wednesday morning hitting Republican Tom Smith for wanting to "eliminate the Department of Education." The Majority PAC spot is running in the Pittsburgh media...

There's another outside group airing a TV ad in the Pennsylvania Senate race, but this one hits Bob Casey and has local ties. Lehigh County Republican Chairman Wayne Woodman has a super PAC, Fight for the Dream, which will begin this week airing a 30-...

In the fall of 2011, long before anyone knew who would be U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's Republican opponent, RealClearPolitics' campaign analyst, Sean Trende, predicted in a chat with another reporter that the Pennsylvania Senate race could be 2012's sleeper...

They've set a date! Democrat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and his Republican challenger Tom Smith are scheduled to debate each other at the end of the month. Their campaigns announced their only debate late Friday after weeks of uncertainty over whether the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arlen Specter, a gruff, independent-minded moderate who spent three decades in the U.S. Senate but was spurned by Pennsylvania voters after switching in 2009 from Republican to Democrat, died on Sunday of cancer, his family said. He...

After months of enjoying strong leads over their Republican challengers in Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey are leading their opponents by only a few points with three weeks until Election Day. Obama is up over Mitt Romney...

On the morning after The Morning Call/Muhlenberg College released a poll showing the margins in the presidential and U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania in the low single digits, a second independent university pollster came out with similar results....

When Pennsylvanians vote next month they won't have just Barack Obama and Mitt Romney or Bob Casey and Tom Smith to choose between. Libertarians beat back a challenge from the state Republican party, which means their candidate for president and...

As public polls last week showed the Pennsylvania Senate beginning to close, Bob Casey wants, and perhaps needs, voters to view Republican Tom Smith has a wealthy, extreme conservative, not a down home, relatable farm boy. So the incumbent Democrat is up...

While President Obama's job approval remains unchanged, his lead over Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania has narrowed slightly, according to a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll. When factoring in likely voters leaning toward a candidate, Obama is up 49...

Is it possible for Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith to be trailing incumbent Democrat Bob Casey by just six points while Mitt Romney is down by 12 against Barack Obama in Pennsylvania? That's what the latest Quinnipiac University survey of likely...