A Rassmussen Reports poll, taken September 20 and released on September 22, shows these results for the Pennsylvania US Senate race: Casey (Dem.) 49%, Santorum (Rep.) 39%, Romanelli (Green) 5%, undecided 7%.

Romanelli’s ballot position is still undecided. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide in the first week of October whether the required number of signatures this year is 67,070 or 15,494. Also, the petition for a rehearing in the federal constitutional case is still pending. If either case wins, Romanelli will be on the ballot. He is already on the absentee overseas ballots.

in 2006, 48 states are holding statewide elections (all but Kentucky and North Carolina). The Libertarian Party has statewide candidates on the ballot in 31 states; the Green Party has them in 26 states plus D.C.; the Constitution Party has them in 13 states; the Socialist Workers in 3 states; the Working Families Party in 3 states; the Reform Party in 3 states; the Socialist Party in one state; the Socialist Equality Party in one state. Also there are twelve parties organized in a single state that have statewide nominees on the ballot.

Libertarians: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Greens: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. It is still possible the party will also have a statewide nominee on the ballot in Pennsylvania, depending on a pending court decision.

Constitution: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah.

Socialist Workers: Iowa, New Jersey, New York.

Working Families: Massachusetts, New York.

Reform: Florida, Kansas.

Socialist: New Jersey.

Socialist Equality: New York.

Parties that are organized in only a single state, and that have statewide nominees this year, are: Alaskan Independence, Peace & Freedom (Cal.), Independent Party of Delaware, Populist Party of Maryland, Natural Law Party of Michigan, Independence Party of Minnesota, Independence Party of New York, Conservative Party of New York, Independence Party of South Carolina, Progressive (Vt.), Liberty Union (Vt.), and Mountain (W.Va.).

A note on methodology: if a state party is affiliated with the national party, it is included even though it may have a different name than the national party (for example, the Constitution Party in Michigan is called the U.S. Taxpayers Party). State parties that are not affiliated with the national party are still included if they use the name of the national party (for example, the Independent Green Party of Virginia is included, even though it is not part of the national Green Party; also some of the state Constitution Parties are included, even though they are not currently affiliated with the national Constitution Party).

The national Green Party has issued press releases including Brian Moore as one of its U.S. Senate candidates. Moore, running in Florida, is registered “independent”, is on the ballot as “independent”, and his web page refers to himself as an independent candidate, although it notes that the Green Party has endorsed him. Therefore, the tabulation above does not include Florida as a state in which the Green Party has any statewide nominees.