Gubernatorial candidate Corbett dogged by jobless comments

From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:

As state attorney general, Tom Corbett enjoyed a two-year run of mostly positive news coverage for his high-profile investigation into corruption in the Capitol, which helped establish him as the front-runner in the 2010 governor’s race…

Ten days after Corbett, a Republican, dropped a campaign bombshell – suggesting jobs were out there but many people preferred unemployment benefits – critics are still flogging him for it…

But if the flap is affecting Corbett’s standing with voters, the polls don’t show it yet. Onorato trailed Corbett by 10 points (48 percent to 38 percent) in a Rasmussen Reports survey taken five days after the jobless comments. That poll measured a similar 10-point gap last month…

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