2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania

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2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
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Nominee Bob Casey Jr. Rick Santorum
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote2,392,9841,684,778
Percentage58.6%41.3%
2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania results map by county.svg
2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania by Congressional District.svg
Casey:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Santorum:     50–60%     60–70%
U.S. senator before election

Rick Santorum
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Bob Casey Jr.
Democratic

The 2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican Rick Santorum ran for re-election to a third term, but was defeated by Democratic State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr., the son of former Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey Sr. [1] Casey was elected to serve between January 3, 2007 and January 3, 2013.

Contents

Santorum trailed Casey in every public poll taken during the campaign. Casey's margin of victory (nearly 18% of those who voted) was the largest ever for a Democratic Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, the largest margin of victory for a Senate challenger in the 2006 elections, and the largest general election margin of defeat for an incumbent U.S. Senator since 1980. [2] Casey was the first Pennsylvania Democrat to win a full term in the Senate since Joseph S. Clark Jr. in 1962, and the first Democrat to win a Senate election since 1991. He was the first Democrat to win a full term for this seat since 1940.

As of 2024, this was the last time the following counties have voted Democratic in a Senate election: Greene, Washington, Westmoreland, Somerset, Lawrence, Mercer, Armstrong, Indiana, Cambria, Warren, Forest, Elk, Clearfield, Clinton, Schuylkill, Columbia, and Carbon. To date, this is the last time that an incumbent Senator from Pennsylvania lost re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Withdrew

  • John Featherman, Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in 2000

Featherman withdrew his candidacy after a Republican party petition challenge because he did not have the necessary number of signatures to get on the ballot. As a result, Santorum won the Republican nomination unopposed. [3]

Results

2006 Republican U.S. Senate primary [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Rick Santorum 561,952 100.00%
Total votes561,952 100.00%


Democratic primary

The Democratic primary was held May 16, 2006.

Candidates

Declined

Results

Casey won a landslide victory in the primary. [8]

2006 Democratic U.S. Senate primary [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Bob Casey, Jr. 629,271 84.48%
Democratic Chuck Pennacchio66,3648.91%
Democratic Alan Sandals48,1136.46%
Write-in 1,1140.15%
Total votes744,862 100.00%

General election

Candidates

Declined

Michelman decided against running and tacitly endorsed Casey in March 2006 [9]

Disqualified

Romanelli was removed from the ballot by a Commonwealth Court judge on September 25, 2006 following a challenge from Democrats for failing to collect enough valid signatures required of third-party candidates. He lost the appeal to the state Supreme Court challenging the required number of signatures, on October 3, 2006 [10] Carl Romanelli was ordered to pay more than $80,000 in legal fees stemming from his failed effort to make the ballot. [11]

Campaign

Santorum's support for Arlen Specter

Republican strategists took Santorum's primary result in 2006 as a bad omen, in which he ran unopposed for the Republican nomination. Republican gubernatorial nominee Lynn Swann, also unopposed, garnered 22,000 more votes statewide than Santorum in the primary, meaning thousands of Republican voters abstained from endorsing Santorum for another Senate term. This may have been partly due to Santorum's support for Arlen Specter, over Congressman Pat Toomey in the 2004 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Even though Santorum is only slightly less conservative than Toomey, he joined virtually all of the state and national Republican establishment in supporting the moderate Specter. This led many socially and fiscally conservative Republicans to consider Santorum's support of Specter to be a betrayal of their cause. [12] [13] [14] However, Santorum says he supported Specter to avoid risking a Toomey loss in the general election, which would prevent President George W. Bush's judicial nominees from getting through the Senate. [15] Santorum says Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito would not have been confirmed without the help of Specter, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time. [15]

Santorum's controversial views

In the Senate, Santorum was an outspoken conservative from a state with a history of electing moderates. This led many political commentators to speculate that his low approval ratings were due to some of his more controversial statements and opinions.

Among these controversies were his views on the privatization of Social Security [16] [17] and the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. [18] In addition, his involvement in the Terri Schiavo case was considered by many in his state to be out of place. [19] [20]

All this left Santorum in a precarious position throughout the race. On May 31, 2006, the polling firm Rasmussen Reports declared that Santorum was the "most vulnerable incumbent" among the Senators running for re-election. [21] SurveyUSA polling taken right before the election showed that Santorum was the least popular of all 100 Senators, with a 38% approval rating and a net approval rating of -19%. [22]

Santorum's residency

While Santorum maintained a small residence in Penn Hills, a township near Pittsburgh, his family primarily lived in a large house in Leesburg, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in Northern Virginia. Santorum faced charges of hypocrisy from critics who noted the similarities between his living situation and that of former Representative Doug Walgren, who Santorum defeated in 1990. Back then, Santorum had claimed that Walgren was out of touch with his district; these claims were backed up with commercials showing Walgren's home in the Virginia suburbs. [23]

On NBC's Meet the Press on September 3, 2006, Santorum admitted that he only spent "maybe a month a year, something like that" at his Pennsylvania residence. [24]

Santorum also drew criticism for enrolling five of his six children in an online "cyber school" in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County (home to Pittsburgh and most of its suburbs), despite the fact that the children lived in Virginia. The Penn Hills School District was billed $73,000 in tuition for the cyber classes. [25]

Casey's momentum

Santorum began his contrast campaign against Casey early, charging him with relentlessly seeking higher political office [26] and failing to take definitive stands on issues. [27] While these charges kept the race competitive, in late September and through October, Casey's campaign seemed to regain the momentum it had had throughout most of the campaign, as most polls showed Casey widening his lead after a summer slump. In a Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll, released on September 26, 2006, Casey was favored by 14 points. [28] An October 18, 2006 poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports showed Casey with a similar double-digit lead. In the Rasmussen poll, only 46% of voters surveyed had a favorable view of Santorum, while 57% of voters viewed Casey favorably. [29]

Negative advertisements

At least one of Santorum's television ads called into question his campaign's use of the facts regarding Casey and people who had donated money to the Casey campaign. [30] The ad, which aired in September, showed several men seated around a table, while talking amongst themselves and smoking cigars, inside a jail cell. While none of the figures, who were played by actors, were named personally, the narrator provided the job descriptions, previous donations to Casey, and ethical and/or legal troubles of each. The Santorum campaign later provided the names of the people portrayed. An editorial in Casey's hometown newspaper, The Times-Tribune , pointed out that all but one of the contributions "[was] made to Casey campaigns when he was running for other offices, at which time none of the contributors were known to be under investigation for anything." [31] In fact, two of the persons cited in the Santorum campaign ad had actually given contributions to Santorum's 2006 Senate campaign. Another of the figures portrayed had died in 2004. Political scientist Larry Sabato called the ad "over the top" and suspected that the fallout would hurt Santorum. [32]

Debates

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [33] Lean D (flip)November 6, 2006
Sabato's Crystal Ball [34] Safe D (flip)November 6, 2006
Rothenberg Political Report [35] Likely D (flip)November 6, 2006
Real Clear Politics [36] Likely D (flip)November 6, 2006

Polling

SourceDateBob
Casey Jr. (D)		Rick
Santorum (R)
Quinnipiac February 16, 200546%41%
SurveyUSA March 8–9, 200549%42%
Keystone March 22, 200544%43%
Quinnipiac April 23, 200549%35%
Keystone June 6, 200544%37%
Quinnipiac July 13, 200550%39%
Rasmussen July 22, 200552%41%
Strategic Vision (R) July 31, 200551%40%
Strategic Vision (R) September 12, 200552%38%
Keystone September 13, 200550%37%
Quinnipiac October 3, 200552%34%
Strategic Vision (R) October 16, 200552%36%
Keystone November 10, 200551%35%
Rasmussen November 10, 200554%34%
Strategic Vision (R) November 16, 200551%36%
Quinnipiac December 13, 200550%38%
Strategic Vision (R) December 18, 200550%39%
Rasmussen January 15, 200653%38%
Strategic Vision (R) January 25, 200650%40%
Keystone February 9, 200650%39%
Quinnipiac February 13, 200651%36%
Rasmussen February 16, 200652%36%
Muhlenberg College March 2, 200649%37%
Mansfield University March 7, 200645%31%
Rasmussen March 14, 200648%38%
Rasmussen March 29, 200650%41%
Quinnipiac April 6, 200648%37%
Strategic Vision (R) April 13, 200650%40%
Rasmussen April 20, 200651%38%
Muhlenberg/Morning Call April 26, 200646%38%
Keystone May 4, 200647%41%
Strategic Vision (R) May 10, 200649%41%
Quinnipiac May 11, 200649%36%
Rasmussen May 22, 200656%33%
American Research Group May 25, 200654%41%
Strategic Vision (R) June 15, 200649%40%
Rasmussen June 19, 200652%37%
Quinnipiac June 21, 200652%34%
Strategic Vision (R) July 20, 200650%40%
Rasmussen Archived August 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine July 26, 200650%39%
Muhlenberg College August 5, 200645%39%
Quinnipiac August 15, 200647%40%
Benenson Strategy Group (D) August 16, 200651%37%
Strategic Vision (R) August 17, 200647%41%
Rasmussen August 22, 200648%40%
Keystone August 24, 200644%39%
USA Today/Gallup August 27, 200656%38%
Keystone [ permanent dead link ]September 18, 200645%38%
Princeton Research Associates September 18, 200652%31%
Rasmussen September 20, 200649%39%
Temple/Philadelphia Inquirer September 24, 200649%39%
Quinnipiac September 26, 200654%40%
Strategic Vision (R) September 28, 200650%40%
Mason-Dixon/McClatchy-MSNBC October 2, 200649%40%
Rasmussen October 5, 200650%37%
Zogby International/Reuters October 5, 200648%36%
Muhlenberg/Morning Call October 8, 200646%41%
Rasmussen October 16, 200655%43%
Democracy Corps October 17, 200654%37%
Strategic Vision (R) October 23, 200649%42%
West Chester University October 27, 200650%39%
Rasmussen October 28, 200655%42%
Temple/Philadelphia Inquirer October 29, 200654%38%
Strategic Vision (R) October 30, 200649%39%
Quinnipiac November 1, 200652%42%
Keystone [ permanent dead link ]November 1, 200653%38%
Reuters/Zogby International November 2, 200648%40%
Muhlenberg/Morning Call November 3, 200651%43%
Mason-Dixon/McClatchy-MSNBC November 5, 200652%39%
Strategic Vision (R) November 6, 200652%40%

Results

General election results [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Bob Casey, Jr. 2,392,984 58.64% +13.2%
Republican Rick Santorum (incumbent)1,684,77841.28%-11.1%
Write-in 3,2810.08%N/A
Total votes4,081,043 100.00% N/A
Democratic gain from Republican

At 9:45 PM EST on Election Night, Santorum called Casey to concede defeat. [38]

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

By congressional district

Bob Casey Jr won 14 of 19 congressional districts, including the 3rd, 6th, 15th and 18th districts, which elected Republicans to the House. [39]

DistrictCasey Jr.SantorumRepresentative
1st 87.7%12.3% Bob Brady
2nd 89.6%10.4%
Chaka Fattah
3rd 54.0%46.0% Phil English
4th 54.9%45.1% Melissa Hart (109th Congress)
Jason Altmire (110th Congress)
5th 49.9%50.1% John E. Peterson
6th 58.5%41.5% Jim Gerlach
7th 59.1%40.9% Curt Weldon (109th Congress)
Joe Sestak (110th Congress)
8th 58.8%41.2% Mike Fitzpatrick (109th Congress)
Patrick Murphy (110th Congress)
9th 44.9%55.1% Bill Shuster
10th 49.1%50.9% Don Sherwood (109th Congress)
Chris Carney (110th Congress)
11th 62.3%37.7% Paul Kanjorski
12th 62.9%37.1% John Murtha
13th 63.0%37.0% Allyson Schwartz
14th 76.4%23.6% Mike Doyle
15th 56.9%43.1% Charlie Dent
16th 45.8%54.2% Joe Pitts
17th 51.3%48.7% Tim Holden
18th 55.2%44.8% Tim Murphy
19th 45.6%54.4% Todd R. Platts

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