How’s This For Viable?
by ChrisJanuary 27th, 2006 2:20 pm
You had to see this coming.
The Santorum Casey race: When people find out about candidate positions on key issues Casey plummets from a twelve point lead to a dead heat, with a non-significant two point lead.
Santorum loses when matched with any of the democratic candidates. Both of the self identified progressive democratic candidates draw higher percentages than Casey, with Pennacchio having the largest percentage of votes against Santorum, at a not quite significant 4.4 points higher than Casey. Casey, at non-significant levels, actually gets MORE votes from Republicans once they find out more about him and Santorum.
I beleive the muffled groan you just heard was the death of the “Casey is the only viable Democrat” idea dying a painful death. Let’s be sure to clean up the corpse because I’m sure it’s going to start to smell something awful. Via Albert.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
It is such an insult to people’s intelligence to offer “Santorum Lite” (Casey) to try to replace Santorum. If you liked the original, no way would you settle for the lite. And if you don’t like the original, the lite will make you gag as well.
January 27th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Alexa’s on the right track, I sure can’t see myself voting for an anti-choice politician (even if he’s running against the greatest mind of the 13th century) Maybe now people will stop perpetuating the myth that Casey is electable and start supporting a candidate that actually supports my right to decide my own healthcare.
-Judith
Go Chuck!