Bad News from the Daily News:
U.S. SEN. Rick Santorum has slashed Democratic challenger Bob Casey
Jr.’s once- double-digit lead and is now just 6 percentage points back,
according to the latest Daily News/CN8 Keystone Poll. (See the complete poll results here (PDF))“Everybody expected this race to tighten. Nobody expected it to
tighten this quickly,” said G. Terry Madonna, professor of public
affairs at Franklin & Marshall College and director of the poll.The survey of 578 registered voters conducted last week showed state
treasurer Casey, who is expected to easily win the Democratic primary,
as the choice of 47 percent to 41 percent for Santorum.The margin of error for the poll was 4.1 percent.
Good News from Think Progress:
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) called for restrictions on lobbyist-funded travel on Feb. 28. Six days later,
he used “a BellSouth plane to travel to North Carolina and South
Carolina.†Santorum said he did not have the “luxury†of a self-imposed
ban because he is running “one of the most expensive Senate races in
the country.â€
