Election 2012: Pennsylvania Senate
Pennsylvania Senate: Casey (D) 49%, Smith (R) 42%
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, Jr. still holds the lead in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Pennsylvania Voters finds Casey with 49% support to 42% for his Republican challenger Tom Smith. Two percent (2%) like some other candidate in the race, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
This Pennsylvania survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on September 19, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .