It will be a significant challenge for Santorum to show a divide between him and the White House.

This certainly chips away at his honeymoon period. It's just more bad news.

He's in the race now. There's more of this to come.

It gives him a boost in terms of the primary. The stars have lined up and given him an extra two weeks of free publicity.

It's going to be hard for him to join that course of conservative dissent, ... If he does he might look again as someone pushing on the extreme.

As someone now that is trying to please a number of constituents, it's rather tricky ground for Senator Santorum to navigate.

People needed an outlet for their anger. They mobilized around the pay raise issue. This pent-up resentment [toward state politicians] has shown impressive staying power.

Swann has more of a buzz among Republican loyalists as someone who can challenge Rendell, and that never happened with Scranton.