2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPoll: Penn. Governor- Wolf +20 over Corbett
according to Rasmussen. Wow
blue neen
(12,319 posts)Unfortunately, Corbett will continue his assault on Pennsylvanians right up until the day he exits office:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10745626
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)If you need help packing, I'm available. What can I say - I'm a helper.
red dog 1
(27,783 posts)It's a Republican outfit.
blue neen
(12,319 posts)makes this poll look even more promising.
red dog 1
(27,783 posts)But I'd like to see what the mainstream polls report
blue neen
(12,319 posts)"Apparently unscathed by a bruising Democratic primary battle, businessman Tom Wolf, the Democratic challenger for Pennsylvania governor, tops Gov. Tom Corbett by a commanding 53 - 33 percent and outscores the Republican incumbent on every measure in the survey, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today."
"This compares to a 52 - 33 percent Wolf lead in a February 26 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University, conducted before the primary bloodletting began in earnest."
"Pennsylvania voters disapprove 55 - 35 percent of the job Gov. Corbett is doing - his lowest net score ever - and say 58 - 33 percent that he does not deserve to be reelected. The governor gets a negative 29 - 50 percent favorability rating, compared to Wolf's 46 - 14 percent favorability, with 38 percent who don't know enough about him to form an opinion."
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/pennsylvania/release-detail?ReleaseID=2047
red dog 1
(27,783 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)because Corbett is nothing but deadweight....
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"when you do unpopular things, you become unpopular". This is what he deserves for trying to make it harder for people to vote and finding other ways to screw up PA.
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)It was his forcing the firing of Joe Paterno that has done him in.
I agree he DESERVES this, but if not for his hubris in doing that when he darn well should have known what it would do to him, he would be reelected easiliy.
I live here and say for absolute certain, this state has absolute slept walked through all the bullshit had has done. Not even raised people's pulses, and I have had bouts with both my state rep and state senator about the voting bill and work a poll, and the apathy over it is stunning.
I live in the heart of republican/Penn State territory and I can't start to count the number of hard core Rs I know who are straight party voters who were/are voting for the D regardless of who it is simply because of the Paterno situation.
Sadly, the only way we get rid of this scumbag is people's vindictiveness over his firing a football coach.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)I'LL believe there poll over Ras even though it's a favorable poll.I don't trust Ras
kimbutgar
(21,060 posts)If you see a poll like this you'll say I don't need to vote for the Democratic he has a comfortable margin.
I live in California and am out of town on election day, Friday before I left I went down and early voted for Gov. Brown even though he has big lead in the primary. I will also be voting in November as all of you should.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)I will wait for PPP/Quinipiac/Marist/Locals/etc to make sure.
ShadowLiberal
(2,237 posts)I can certainly believe that Corbett is losing that badly based on what I've seen just from my own family, most of my relatives are strong Republicans.
All of them that I've talked to about Corbett agree that Corbett didn't do enough to protect the victims of Jerry Sandusky. And pretty much all of them also feel that Corbett purposely slow walked the investigation into the scandal. Someone that's viewed as effectively turning a blind eye for years on a sexual predator isn't exactly a guy who inspires much confidence.
There was some talk months ago about some Republicans trying to get Bruce Caster of Montgomery county to challenge Corbett in a primary. But despite a lot of disgust with Corbett over the Penn State scandal the support just wasn't there when polls were conducted of a potential match up, so Caster passed it up. (Bruce Caster is the only Republican on Montgomery's board of commissioners, and the only the one on the board who was opposing the same sex marriage lawsuit Montgomery county started).
Avalux
(35,015 posts)I hope my fellow Pennsylvanians who voted for the asshole learned their lesson. Bad, bad man.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)to continue their local corruption and behavior.
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)I can say this with absolute confidence and without a doubt for one reason.
Joe Paterno.
Penn State is a VERY republican institution in this state, and Joe Paterno was almost literally a god to many here.
All reports indicate that Corbett was the one who drove his ham handed late night firing.
We have not seen a one term governor in this state in half a century, and make no mistake, Corbett could have done everything else he has done - sold out to natural gas, ram rodded what is now all be repealed legalized voter obstruction, sold out the lottery system to a bad out of country outfit, had such an extreme position on selling education to for profit education even the republican controlled state assembly could not get behind it, be an arrogant, smug douchebag.
He could have been all of that and more, and gotten reelected fairly easily.
But, being the man who ram rodded the firing of Joe Paterno is his political death knell.
I know FAR too many solid Rs who can't wait to vote AGAINST him in the fall, the democrat does not even matter cause of Joe Paterno.
FSogol
(45,456 posts)He's finished.