Santorum Fades

From a new Temple/Inquirer poll:

As U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum makes fighting global terrorism his closing pitch of the campaign, the latest Temple/Inquirer Poll shows that growing doubts about the Iraq war continue to erode support for Republicans.

More voters than a month ago say the war - which remains the defining issue in the November election - has made the country less safe from terrorism, while the percentage saying they feel safer has dropped. At the same time, a majority of voters, 52 percent, want the United States to either decrease troop levels in Iraq or pull out altogether.

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The Temple/Inquirer poll shows Santorum has lost ground to his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr. A month ago, Casey led the two-term senator by 11 points. The latest poll has Casey ahead 54 percent to 38 percent with 6 percent undecided.

A sixteen point spread is pretty impressive considering that the margin of error in the poll was only 3.8%.

The same poll found that Governor Rendell leads Lynn Swann 58-34.

It was also noted that in this election, Democrats were more loyal to their party, moderates we leaning very strongly towards Democratic candidates and even some moderate Republicans favored Dems.

All good news from the home state.

Rick Santorum Bob Casey, Jr Ed Rendell Lynn Swann 2006 Election Pennsylvania Politics