Poll: Bob Casey Jr. re-establishes comfortable lead over Santorum, 56%-38%

[Grebrook]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-31-midterm-elections_x.htm


• In Pennsylvania, Sen. Rick Santorum trailed Democrat Bob Casey by 18 percentage points among likely voters, by 14 points among registered voters.

• In Ohio, Sen. Mike DeWine was behind Democrat Sherrod Brown by 6 points among likely voters, by 2 points among registered voters.

• In Montana, three-term Sen. Conrad Burns, who has faced questions in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, was in a close race with Democrat Jon Tester. Tester led by 3 points among likely voters; Burns led by 2 points among registered voters.

• In Missouri, Sen. Jim Talent held a 6-point lead among likely voters over Democrat Claire McCaskill. The two were tied among registered voters.

• In Minnesota, where Republicans hope to pick up an open seat, Democrat Amy Klobuchar led Republican Mark Kennedy by 10 points among likely voters, by 7 points among registered voters.

So much for the millions of dollars Santorum has been throwing at Casey in attack ads. He's going down a miserable failure. A special note to consider here is that all of the Republican hype about how Republican voters will come out in greater numbers this fall are apparently untrue. In likely voters the poll (above) clearly pointed out that Santorum is actually trailing much worse among likely voters than merely registered voters.

That is an important point, because all national opinion polls taken so far on the Congressional Races have only taken into account "registered voters". Could it be that things are actually WORSE than the GOP expects, nationally?

Edit: Also, would Pennsylvania Democrats please slap some sense into the Greens? Honestly. I mean, let's be honest here, Santorum is probably ideologically WORSE than Bush, albeit not by much since it's a difficult task. But Santorum is easily the most fanatical Republican in the senate, most definitely the most fanatical above the Mason-Dixie line.

[lebkuchen]

1. good. I contributed to this candidate

and I want to see dividends.

[Fabio]

2. you sound like a republican.

with all that dividend talk.

just kidding.:-)

[lebkuchen]

9. It's nice to see Casey take some action

and play a part in his own campaign. I was beginning to wonder...

[Buzz Clik]

3. Rats! This means that the daily rants against the Greens will stop.

How disappointing.

[Justice Is Comin]

4. You haven't seen the sleaze loaded into the hopper yet though.

There are going to be lies like you have never seen before with their coffers of money they haven't used yet.

Wear a raincoat.

[blue neen]

5. Santorum has been an embarrassment to us in PA for far too long.

You ought to see the obnoxious ads he's running...polka parties with senior citizens, talking about how he worked to GUARANTEE their Social Security. HA! He travelled this state far and wide, talking about Bush's privatization plan.

Hypocrite.

[globalvillage]

6. Woo Hoo!!! Watch my (future) Senator today on Meet the Press!!!

That's excellent news. Thanks for posting. Icky's going down!!!



http://www.bobcasey.com/

[lindac07]

7. MTP

Saw Casey v. Santorum already (its on at 9:00am here). Casey did okay, Santorum looked a bit like a BUSH TOOL, they even put up his voting record. Guess Ricky can't really run from that, although he did try. I will be interested in reading what others here think of how Casey did.

[MH1]

8. "would Pennsylvania Democrats please slap some sense into the Greens?"

We wish we could, we wish we could.

This is not really a difficult calculaton. Yet they seem to lack the fundamental skills to comprehend it.

Or, they really are tools of the Republican party. :shrug:

:banghead: