Senate '12

Poll: Pennsylvania Voters Cold To Potential Santorum Senate Run

Jon Terbush | February 25, 2011, 11:32AM

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

If Rick Santorum wants to get back into national politics, he'd better run for president, as a new survey conducted by Municipoll finds that a majority of Pennsylvania voters don't like the idea of sending the former Republican Senator back to Congress.

In the poll of likely voters, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) trounced Santorum in a hypothetical 2012 Senate race, 50% to 38%. Casey captured Santorum's Senate seat in 2006 in a election year that saw Democrats reclaim control of the upper chamber of Congress.

Casey's lead over Santorum is slightly larger than the 48% to 41% lead PPP showed him boasting in a January poll.

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