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...years, Catholics in Washington have kept informal count of possible high-profile Opus people, including Justice Antonin Scalia and almost-Justice Robert Bork, Senators Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback, columnist Robert Novak and former FBI head Louis Freeh. The tally was not totally arbitrary: Freeh's child went to an Opus Dei school, and his brother was a numerary for a while; Scalia's wife has attended Opus events, and the Justice is close to an Opus priest; and Brownback, Bork and Novak converted to Catholicism under one's wing. Several have denied the rumors ("I can't stress enough...
...Notre Dame, estimates that through programs for nonmembers and the articulate piety of its members, Opus Dei informs "about a million conservative Catholics." That's just 1.5% of the 67 million Catholics nationally, but it's a trove of motivated voters a politician can love, and may explain why Santorum has spoken at Opus events, in one case quoting Escrivá: "'Have you ever bothered to think how absurd it is to leave one's Catholicism aside on entering a professional association [or] Congress, as if you were checking your hat at the door...
...five G.O.P. congressional seats are in play, out of a total 19. The President is still beloved by the state's Republican faithful, as evidenced by the fact that 500 of them showed up to see him at a $1,000-a-plate private fund raiser for Senator Rick Santorum last week in Sewickley Heights, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Santorum posed for photos with the President at the airport and leaned into a smiling handshake with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls...
...raise $1.1 million for DeWine at a private event in the tony Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill. (DeWine's probable Senate opponent observed that "DeWine doesn't want to be seen with President Bush in public.") One of the first to denounce the ports deal was Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum, a Senator whose re-election battle--already the toughest in the country--will be even harder to win without improved support in Philadelphia, one of the affected ports. Close behind Santorum was Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who is struggling to establish his identity for a possible 2008 presidential...
...Both are well-suited for the sometimes ruthless work of running their party's campaign committees. Looking to knock off Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum, Schumer recruited Bob Casey, the popular, anti-abortion rights secretary of state there, and pressured an abortion rights advocate running for the seat to withdraw-angering abortion rights activists who are key donors to the party. ?The days are over when a Democratic candidate has to check off 18 politically correct boxes,? Schumer says. In a congressional race in Illinois, Emanuel recruited Tammy Duckworth, a Army major who lost both her legs in Iraq, pushing...