I spent most of the night doing reports for SRN news from the Santorum headquarters at the William Penn in Pittsburgh. While it was hard to see a good man lose, sometimes you learn more by losing rather than winning.
Sen. Santorum was humble and gracious and I know in time the rest of Pennsylvania will realize the we all lost last night. He once told me that elections are not about winning, it's about speaking the truth and letting the people decide. He did just that.
Overall, there is a silver lining in this election cloud. Democrats, who historically have opposed the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage and the public acknowledgement of God, none-the-less chose some moral conservatives among their ranks.
A good sign was the seven clear victories on state amendments defining marriage as between one man and one woman, and the likely passage of another. Yet we still face another serious challenge. Having Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house-- the third person in constitutional succession to the president--who is a radical pro-abortion, pro- homosexual agenda, European-like secularist does make the mission of cultural moral reform difficult.
In the end, our confidence is not in parties, politicians or judges and justices, but in a God who "changes not."
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Democrats enjoy a 54% to 46% voter registration edge in Pennsylvania, but Senator Santorum lost this race by a larger 59% to 41% margin. Senator Santorum lost a sizable section of the conservative base in Pennsylvania that was with him in previous elections.
In Butler County, Republican registration increased by 6,000 additional voters since 2000, while Democrat registration has remained stagnant. Santorum should have had a net gain of some 6,000 more votes when compared to his 2000 vote total. Instead, Santorum received 12,000 LESS votes in 2006 than in 2000 in Butler County.
And this result is in one of the “reddest” counties in Pennsylvania. Butler County exceeded the vote goal for President Bush in 2004 by 20%. Butler County also went 60% - 40% for Pat Toomey over Arlen Specter in the 2004 senate primary.
Pro-Life conservatives needed a simple assurance that Senator Santorum would not work against conservative Pro-Life Republicans in Primary elections. Given Santorum’s efforts with campaigning in 5 contested primary races on behalf of pro-abortion candidates with Pro-Life opponents, this request was not too much to ask from the Senator. Yet no assurances were given.
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