Two-term Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) appears to be in quite a pickle according to the latest round of partisan polling from the Republican side of the aisle. The Hill's Peter Savodnik provides some details.

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is losing ground to his Democratic challenger, state Treasurer Bob Casey, a GOP poll to be released today shows.

The Strategic Vision survey, conducted Saturday through Monday, gives Casey a 14-point lead over the second-term senator, with the Democrat at 52 percent and the Republican at 38 percent. Seven percent of the 1,200 likely voters interviewed were undecided.

A poll released in early August by the same firm showed Casey leading Santorum by 11 points.

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The Strategic Vision poll gives President Bush a 39 percent overall job approval rating, with 51 percent disapproving and 10 percent undecided. Forty percent of respondents back Bush’s stewardship of the economy, and 35 percent support his handling of Katrina.

No incumbent wants their reelect numbers to be below 40 percent, and certainly no incumbent wants to trail by 14 at this point -- in a Republican poll. Suffice it to say this is going to be a tough 14 months for Rich Santorum.