Hunting Big Game

摘要

Cambria county is pennsyl-vania deer-hunter territory, and you had better be careful before you criticize an American war or a commander in chief. In these Alleghenies, full of devout descendants of Eastern European millworkers, you carry a rifle into the woods-and serve in the military-as a way of life. That's why Democrat Bob Casey Jr. treaded as carefully as a hunter with a buck in view when he campaigned last week at Ed Cernic's annual picnic on a hillside above Johnstown. Seeking votes in his campaign to oust Rick San-torum, perhaps the Senate's most vulnerable Republican, Casey mentioned Iraq once-and then only to laud "the valor of those young men and women who are dying for us" there. But in an interview with NEWSWEEK, Casey crept closer to his target. Santorum, he said, "was not asking the tough questions of this president. What we need most of all to go forward are facts-and this administration isn't giving them to us and leaders such as Santorum aren't asking for them."