Rasmussen New Poll: PA Senate 2006: Casey 52% Santorum 41%

[ruggerson]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/PA%20Election%202006.htm

I don't just want Ricky to lose. I want him to lose so badly that he will be forced to sit alone in his house and quietly reevaluate his virulent bigotry and completely understand why the voters thoroughly rejected him.


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July 22, 2005--The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows that Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is living up to his reputation as the most vulnerable incumbent at this point in the 2006 election cycle. Santorum trails Democrat Bob Casey, Jr by eleven percentage points, 52% to 41%.

Casey is viewed favorably by 49% of the state’s likely voters while 27% have an unfavorable opinion. For Santorum, 44% say favorable and 43% unfavorable.

Casey earns 85% of the vote from self-identified liberal voters and 62% from moderates. Santorum currently attracts 66% of the conservative vote.

Typically, Republicans do better among married voters. However, at the moment, Santorum attracts 41% of married voters and 40% from those who are not married.

[deadparrot]

1. Damn.

Granted, it's way early, but :woohoo:

[BlueWolff]

2. That slime has to go!

[still_one]

3. I don't trust any of the polls especially Rasmussen

This could be used to unite their party base

NOTHING SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED

[bluestateguy]

4. It will likley still be close

Incumbents have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves that they can use in ways that challengers cannot.

But I like Casey's chances, and in fact I think the Democrats could net as many as 3 new Senate seats.

[Zinfandel]

5. Santorum is just wondering how many republican owned electronic voting

machines can be in place by election time...As long as there are electronic voting machines, Santorum has nothing to worry about.

(Just remember the senate race in Georgia, double digit lead for the democrat, the night before the election democrat is ahead of the republican all night but in the morning....the democrat loses to a republican by many points even though the exit polling clearly showed the democrat won...They have 100% electronic voting machines in Georgia)

[dsc]

9. That is just plain false

Cleland didn't have a double digit lead in the closing part of that race. He did have a lead, as did Barnes, but neither were in double digits.

[wryter2000]

6. Oh, please, oh, please

That asshole has to go.

[starroute]

7. Ease back a bit -- we don't want the Republicans to dump Santorum

I say this as a Pennsylvanian with an interest in the matter.

If Santorum's ratings *really* take a nose dive, he's likely to be gently eased out in favor of someone more electable. We want him to just barely hang in there -- enough so that his own party can't call it quits.

[NewJeffCT]

8. The RW slime machine hasn't gotten started on Casey yet

don't know what they'll do to Casey, but I'm sure they'll do their best to demonize him, as Santorum is one of the higher profile Republicans out there and defeating him would be a blow to the whole GOP.

[tabasco]

10. He will be attacked with disgusting lies like the swift boat crap.

No doubt about it.

[ClintonTyree]

11. The reason Slugs do better among married people.............

is because the husbands tell their wives who to vote for......and they do it.

Every Republican married couple I've ever met has this disgusting dynamic. The husband, being the smart one and most politically savvy :eyes: makes the decision of who to vote for and then tells the wive. The dutiful Slug wife will then vote for whom hubby has chosen because "she doesn't know anything about politics". :eyes:

I swear to God this happens. I grew up in a small town, very conservative, but I would ALWAYS overhear the husbands telling their wives how to vote. I've heard this from my Father, Brother, Sister...every Aunt and Uncle I can ever remember, every friend and their parents, it's disgusting! Until I was 20 I thought this was the normal dynamic of a husband and wife relationship concerning politics.

Has anyone else run across this? Or was I raised in a very weird little town. By the way, I'm 54 so this was back a while ago, but this practice is still in use today. Little ol' women can't BEGIN to understand the complexities of politics. Why, that's MAN'S work, silly! :puke:

[Ian David]

12. Don't Forget. Jon Stewart is Spreading Santorum on The Daily Show Tonight

My guess is his Director of Communications, "Gay Bobby," is deliberately trying to sabotage Santorum by telling him it's a good idea to go on The Daily Show.

See related threads:

More proof Santorum is crazy: He'll be on The Daily Show on Monday
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Santorum calls gay staffer a 'trusted employee'
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Posted on Sun, Jul. 24, 2005
Senator's new chapter of political risk
By Carrie Budoff
Inquirer Staff Writer

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And there he was Friday, on the first day of a publicity tour - which will bring him to bookstores in the coming weeks, as well as scheduled appearances on the Today show and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tomorrow - talking up his ideas and shooing aside any suggestion that he was making trouble for himself.

"My staff {Gay Bobby} says I take a political risk every time I open my mouth and say what is on my mind," Santorum quipped, after signing copies at a suburban Pittsburgh bookstore.

Even so, he added, "my opponent has plenty of ad material. And, you know, I gave them a little more. Nobody has enough money to run all the stuff they'd like to run against me. So my feeling is, I don't worry about it."

His willingness to unload his thoughts comes as no surprise to supporters. But the timing has left some political pragmatists wondering, particularly now as he rebounds from a spate of critical publicity, most notably for his leading role in Congress to prevent the death of Terri Schiavo.

"The frankness with which he lays out his beliefs is sometimes difficult to deal with, with some of my people," said George Bochetto, a Philadelphia lawyer who raises money for Santorum in Southeastern Pennsylvania. "It is going to be tougher and tougher to raise money."

More:
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/12207046.htm



Santorum rebuts book criticism
Senator also stands by his controversial remarks about Boston's sexual abuse scandal
Saturday, July 23, 2005
By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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On Monday, the senator is scheduled to appear on the "Today" show, Fox News and, perhaps most improbably, "The Daily Show," with Jon Stewart, on Comedy Central.

Yesterday, at a taping of "KD/PG Sunday Edition," Santorum rebutted early criticism of the book, said that it pointed out the failures of both liberalism and conservatives in addressing poverty and expressed confidence in his re-election prospects for next year.

<snip>

On other subjects during the program, which will air at 11:30 tomorrow morning on KDKA-TV, Santorum criticized the Penn Hills school board for appealing a decision that the district could not recover tuition money paid for Santorum's children to attend a cyber charter school.

More:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05204/542549.stm