New poll on Casey-Santorum

A new Quinnipiac poll shows Casey with a substantial lead over Santorum for the 2006 Senate race, apparently benefitting from a lot of negative response among Santorum supporters to his positions on both Social Security and the Terri Schiavo circus. Of course, it's a long long time until the actual election. Santorum may well be taking some calculated risks to endear him to his most conservative supporters, trusting that everybody else will have forgotten these issues by 18 months from now. Casey's positive numbers are pretty soft, given the high percentage of voters who claim not to know much about him yet.