PA-Senate Class I Seat

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RaceTracker 2012 Congressional Election Dashboard
2012 House report  ยท 2012 Senate report
House: 435 seats Senate: 33 seats
GOP Dems Total GOP Dems Total
Confirmed primary challenges 5 2 7 5 5 10
Possible primary challenges 0 0 0 0 0 0
Open seats* 16 21 41 3 6 102
1. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.
This profile of Pennsylvania's Class I U.S. Senate seat, currently filled by Robert Casey, is part of the RaceTracker project.



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Next election: 2012

Race status [edit race status]


Incumbent Robert Casey
Incumbent running? Yes
Primary challenge? No primary challenge for incumbent.
Cook Political Report Partisan Voting Index Non-competitive seat
Cook Political Report Race Classification Likely Democratic

Candidates [edit candidate list]
Links to names in blue have existing profiles, red links need someone to start one.

Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note
Robert Casey Democratic Confirmed candidate Source April 24, 2012
Tim Murphy Republican Out of race Source August 31, 2011 Current U.S. Rep. for PA-18.
Patrick Meehan Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2011 Current U.S. Rep. for PA-07.
Steve Welch Republican Out - lost primary Source April 24, 2012
John Vernon Republican Out - lost primary Source April 24, 2012
Sam Rohrer Republican Out - lost primary Source April 24, 2012
Tom Smith Republican Confirmed candidate Source April 24, 2011
Tim Burns Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2012
David Christian Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2012
Jake Corman Republican Out of race Source July 6, 2011
Jim Cawley Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2012 Current Lt. Governor
Keith Loiselle Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2012
Charles Dent Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2012
Jim Gerlach Republican Out of race Source February 15, 2012
Joseph Vodvarka Democratic Out - lost primary Source April 24, 2012
Marc Scaringi Republican Out - lost primary Source April 24, 2012

(Candidate classification criteria)


Results [edit election results]

2012 primary winners 2012 general election winner
Robert Casey, Tom Smith TBD

Last election: 2006

Incumbent: Rick Santorum

Candidates

Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note
Robert Casey Democratic Confirmed candidate (source needed)
Rick Santorum Republican Confirmed candidate (source needed)

(Candidate classification criteria)


Results

Primary winners: Robert Casey, Rick Santorum
General election winner: Robert Casey

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See also

External articles

Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "PA-Sen" (link)

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