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Restricted from seeking another term as Auditor General of Pennsylvania, Casey declined to seek the office of State Treasurer in 1976.

Instead, a county official who was also named Robert Casey won the Democratic primary and the general election, spending virtually no money and doing virtually no campaigning ; voters merely assumed they were voting for the outgoing Auditor General.

In 1980 the Republicans launched an extensive advertising campaign to clarify that " Casey isn't Casey ," and the Democratic state treasurer was defeated for re-election, losing to Budd Dwyer.