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With the proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage being debated this week in the U.S. Senate, some GOP leaders worry it might hurt Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) but Republican Main Street Partnership head Sarah Chamberlain Resnick said staunch conservatives will remain loyal to Santorum, noting "It's a net zero if not a negative." A recent Patriot-News/WGAL-TV Keystone Poll found that 67 percent of conservatives said they support Santorum but state Democratic candidate Bob Casey leads in all polls. The Associated Press interviewed Santorum in 2003, who likened homosexuality to bestiality, incest and polygamy as a threat to society. Casey opposed...

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) called yesterday Democratic candidate Bob Casey Jr. a "thug." Santorum accused Ed Vecchio, the husband of the Penn Hills Democratic Party chairwoman Erin Vecchio, a Casey operative, noting that he trespassed on his property and looked into his windows. The incumbent also blasted the Casey campaign of "writing press releases in support of that kind of activity." Santorum said on WILK-AM's Sue Henry Show said that Casey should start acting like a candidate instead of a thug. Casey fired back, calling Santorum's charges "false and malicious," describing Santorum's actions as "weirdness."