New poll finds Corbett closing to 7 points
A new survey shows Gov. Tom Corbett (R) trailing Democratic challenger Tom Wolf, 49 percent to 42 percent, the tightest margin between the two candidates in any public poll so far.
The poll, released Friday by the news website Keystone Report, was conducted by Magellan Strategies, a GOP-leaning research firm based in Baton Rouge, La. It suggests a much closer race than other recent surveys, and is in line with what Pennsylvania Republicans say they have been seeing in private polls.
A poll conducted between Sept. 30 and Oct. 5 by Quinnipiac University, for instance, found that Wolf was leading by 17 percentage points.
The Real Clear Politics poll aggregator puts Wolf’s lead at an average of 11 percentage points, with slightly more than two weeks to go in the campaign.
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The pollster said the biggest difference between its finding and those of other recent polls is that the weighting of its responses assumes a lower relative turnout of Democrats compared to Republicans. Magellan said the assumption fits the state's historical turnout patterns in non-presidential election years.
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There's a LOT of brain-dead zombies that'll be voting for Corbett just because he's Republican (this while the same people will attack US as being "ill-informed and stupid"
