PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Republican Gov. Tom Corbett since March has shifted his position on key issues, possibly to garner support among Democrats and independent voters in the November election, analysts say.
The governor “appears to be taking some opportunities to soften his (conservative) positions on an array of issues,” said Christopher Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.
Corbett opposed medical marijuana but now supports a pilot program. He dropped an appeal of a court ruling against the state’s voter ID law and moved from a mandatory to a voluntary work-search requirement for recipients in the state’s expanded Medicaid plan… (more)
