PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: …A slightly higher percentage of senior citizens — 37 percent — have a favorable opinion of Corbett than likely voters as a whole, while 57 percent have an unfavorable one, the poll shows. Their support appears to be slipping.
Forty-eight percent of seniors had an unfavorable opinion of Corbett in an RMU survey in February, and exit polling in the 2010 election showed seniors supported him 63 percent to 37 percent, Harold said.
[Robert Morris University political scientist Philip] Harold said the issue of taxing natural gas extraction and drilling, in general, could be turning the table… (more)
