Corbett Lags by 20 Points in Pa. Gov. Race

NEWSMAX: Republican Governor Tom Corbett trails his Democratic challenger Tom Wolf by 20 points in a new Rasmussen Reports’ poll dealing with the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race.

A new statewide telephone survey of likely Pennsylvania voters shows Wolf with 51 percent of the vote to Corbett’s 31 percent. Four percent (4 percent) prefer some other candidate in the race, but 14 percent are still undecided at this point.

Corbett, a former state attorney general who was elected governor in 2010 with 55 percent of the vote, now draws support from just 59 percent of Republicans in Pennsylvania. Wolf, a businessman, is backed by 83 percent of Pennsylvania Democrats and 25 percent of the state’s Republicans. The Democrat leads by 10 points among voters not affiliated with either major party… (more)

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