It is unprecedented in Pennsylvania history (or just about any other state) for a sitting governor to trail by so much so close to election day. So how has Tom Corbett bring it about?
Two things stand out:
1) In an attempt to miss-direct public attention from his former prosecutorial lapses, he made a scapegoat of Penn State icon Joe Paterno, the most beloved and successful football coach in the country, by summarily firing him while on his death bed.
2) Over crowd classes, shut down school libraries, and eliminate extra-curricular activities in public schools for want of state revenue but refuse to tax Marcellus Shale extraction as do all other states, after receiving millions in campaign contributions from the industry.
Of course there are many other boners, like trying to sell the very successful state owned lottery system to British interest for whatever purpose even the legislators could not figure out. (One guess.) But probably the first two account for fifteen of the twenty-five point deficit.
With about two months to go, Tom Wolf’s lead in Pa. gubernatorial race grows slightly in new poll
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: : With 67 days to the gubernatorial election, a poll released Thursday painted a slightly higher peak on the hill Gov. Tom Corbett must climb to overtake Democratic challenger Tom Wolf.
Wolf leads the race by 25 points in the poll, completed by the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College, for which 520 registered voters were interviewed between Aug. 18-25.
If the election had been held on the day the voters took the poll, Wolf would’ve taken 49 percent of the vote to Corbett’s 24 percent, with 25 percent of voters undecided, according to the poll. View the entire poll at the bottom of this entry… (more)
