Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is in trouble. His Dem opponent, Robert Casey Jr., is ahead in the polls. All signs point to a humiliating loss this November.

So apparently the Pennsylvania Republican Party thought it would be a good idea to gin up a Green Party campaign, to siphon off Dem votes.

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This has been mostly speculation until now, but over at TPMMuckraker, they’ve done due diligence and discovered that every single contributor to the Penn. Green campaign is a conservative — except one. Who’s the one? The candidate himself.

I’m just saying.

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