As a Senate staffer of an earlier generation who later wrote three books about the Senate, I have plainly spent more time thinking about the Senate than any reasonable person should. But even as public attention focuses on the extraordinarily high stakes race for the presidency, it is important not to overlook the importance of the Senate.
The truth is both that Bob Casey has been a fine senator and that at a different time, David McCormick could also be. But control of the Senate hangs by a thread, and that reality presents Pennsylvania voters with a choice as stark as night and day.