PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: For the last several weeks, Gov. Corbett’s reelection campaign has portrayed Wolf in television ads as a looming tax-and-spend menace, while the Pennsylvania GOP, with direct-mail attack pieces sent to Democrats, worked to poke holes in his rosy story of business success.
Though Corbett is considered vulnerable – polls have shown only about a quarter of voters believe he deserves a second term – political analysts and Republican strategists still say he could win.
In the incumbent’s favor: plenty of campaign cash, exploitable questions about Wolf, the unpopularity of the Democratic president, and the typical demographics of midterm electorates, which skew Republican… (more)