Posted by
cehwiedel on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:12:00 AM
Yesterday's mail contained a flyer from the
Santorum campaign. Rick Santorum is a Republican Senator running for re-election in Pennsylvania,
one of Hugh Hewitt's "big four" campaigns to support.
Here is part of the text of the Santorum campaign flyer:
Why on earth is a U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania so important to you in California?
I'll tell you why. If you want to keep your taxes low, defeat the terrorist threat to our freedom, and restore sanity to our judicial system by appointing judges who won't re-write the Constitution every chance they get…
then my victory in Pennsylvania will help protect you and your family from the radical left seeking to seize control of the United States Senate this November.
The campaign flyer asserts that out-of-state money is financing Santorum's Democratic opponent. If true (I haven't verified it), that's hardly surprising.
A
recent poll reported by the Philadelphia Daily News shows Santorum trailing Bob Casey by 7 percentage points amoung all voters, 5 percentage points among likely voters. Money supporting campaign advertising would likely be quite effective in narrowing that gap.
The Blogging Caesar at
Election Projection currently predicts that the Democrats will win the Pennsylvania Senate seat.
In earlier posts, I have suggested that rather than support the doomed campaign of Dianne Feinstein's opponent,
Richard Mountjoy, you should pick a worthy Republican in a tight race in another state. My own pick was
John Kyl of Arizona, neighbor to California. (The Blogging Caesar currently predicts a win for Kyl.)
Rick Santorum is another candidate worthy of consideration.
[You are invited to visit
www.cehwiedel.com, where I write on many topics other than the esteemed members of the California delegation to the United States Senate.]