An interesting political storm is brewing in Pennsylvania politics. Sen. Rick Santorum is the #1 democratic Senate target in the country and the Dems scored a huge coup by getting State Treasurer Bob Casey Jr (who authorized all the pay raise checks btw) to run against him in the election.

The rest of the story I am sure most of you know about how Casey jumped out to an early lead and the problems with DC piled ontop of Santorum, but what is happeing in PA today is interesting. The Green candidate for Senate submitted 90,000 signatures to get on the ballot, he needs only 67,000 valid signaturs to make it. The Casey people reacted as expected, viciously attacking Romanelli (green candidate) as a mere pawn for the Republican Party and Rick Santorum.

A new poll due out Sunday supposedly shows Rick well within single digits and within striking digits of Casey. This is the same Bob Casey that blew a 20+ pt lead to Ed Rendell in 2002. This is still a hard fight for Rick, but to put it bluntly fighting hard is what Rick does best.