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Rick Santorum

Senator, Pennsylvania - Republican

Third-party candidate may help Santorum

David M Brown,  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review    
August 10, 2006  Third-party candidate may help Santorum    

Some political analysts agree that a third party candidate, particularly Green Party's Carl Romanelli, can boost Sen. Rick Santorum's (R-PA) chances of reelection. Bob Moranto, a political science professor at Villanova University, said Wednesday that a third party candidate could determine the outcome of the race; while G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, said Romanelli could siphon more votes from Casey than from Santorum, but said the Green Party candidate is unlikely to have a significant impact on who wins.

Democrats on Tuesday asked the Commonwealth Court to remove Romanelli and two other Green Party candidates seeking statewide office from the ballot, claiming many of the signatures on Romanelli's nominating petitions are invalid. State Democratic Party spokesman Abe Amoros defended that their challenge is not about the Green Party but about Santorum fearing his rival Bob Casey (D) in the fall. Santorum spokeswoman Virginia Davis accused the Democrats of silencing a voice in the democratic process and said that the Santorum campaign has always been open about helping Romanelli. Romanelli dismissed the Democrats' challenge as "bogus on its face."


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Relevant Statements


"I think if there were not some possibility that it could determine the outcome, then the Republicans wouldn't be helping him to get on the ballot and the Democrats wouldn't be trying to get him off.... "In a close race, that could be the difference."
Robert Maranto
Political science professor at Villanova University on having a third party candidate in the ballot

[Democrats are trying] to silence a voice in the democratic process."
Virginia Davis
Santorum spokeswoman on Democrats challenging Romanelli's nominating petitions

"It sounds like one of those things that sounds like it would work until you do it, but historically it hasn't paid dividends."
G. Terry Madonna
Political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster County on Romanelli unlikely to have a significant impact on who wins

"Bogus on its face.... It's just so reflective of the arrogance on the part of Democrats at all levels -- from the national level on down to the local level -- assuming they own anyone's votes."
Carl Romanelli
The Green Party candidate on Democrats challenging his nominating petitions

"It's about Santorum and his supporters being afraid to face Bob Casey in the fall."
Abe Amoros
Spokesman for the state Democratic Party on Democrats challenging Romanelli's nominating petitions