It's Friday, here's some great news:
http://www.politicspa.com/...
Another poll, another piece of bad news for Governor Tom Corbett.
The latest Robert Morris University poll shows Democratic nominee Tom Wolf holding onto his substantial lead over Corbett.
The survey of likely voters found 50 percent supporting Wolf and 29.2% backing Corbett. 20.85 remain undecided.
If those undecided are pressed, however, Wolf leads 56.8% to 33.8% when “leaners” are included.
Wolf’s lead dropped a bit from the last RMU poll which had it at 31 points. They attribute this to the Governor’s gain among older Pennsylvanians. Also according to RMU, Wolf leads in every region of the state except central PA, where the Gov has a six point advantage.
About 84% of respondents are “strongly committed” to their choice.
“The problem for the Corbett campaign is that voters have made up their minds,” said Philip Harold, professor of political science and associate dean of the School of Education and Social Sciences at RMU. - Politics PA, 10/3/14
RMU Polling sampled 500 likely voters from September 26th to 29th. All surveys were conducted using “an online survey instrument”. The margin or error is plus or minus 4%. Some other points from the poll:
50.6% of respondents said President Obama’s support for Tom Wolf would not impact their support. That's good because President Obama will be campaign in Pennsylvania soon and we could see him on the campaign trail for Wolf. But Wolf will be getting a big name on the campaign trail for him very soon:
http://www.politicspa.com/...
Hillary Clinton is coming back to the Keystone State.
According to Maggie Haberman of Politico (far and away the best source for all things Hillary), the former Secretary of State is coming to Philadelphia next week to campaign for Democratic nominee Tom Wolf.
“Clinton has several stops planned for Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls,” Haberman writes. “In addition to helping [New Hampshire Governor Maggie] Hassan, she will host her first public fundraiser next week in Philadelphia for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Wolf, a “Women for Wolf” event, aides said.” - Politics PA, 10/3/14
Another interesting point is 54.6% assert that Gov. Corbett’s handling of the Sandusky investigation will have no effect on their vote. However, 50.4% believe that it took Corbett too long to prosecute the case and 37.8% of people think his campaign should’ve returned donations from Sandusky charity board members.
As for Wolf helping other Democrats on the ticket 29% of all respondents say they’ll vote a straight party line (for one party in every elective office). That breaks down to 16.4% for all Democrats and 12.6% for all Republicans. 23.6% of people, though, responded that they’ll mostly support Democratic candidates while 20.8% said they’ll mostly support Republicans. 12.4% were evenly split. Winning the State Senate and even picking up congressional seats in PA-06 and PA-08 would be a huge bonus.
Meanwhile, Corbett's been getting some bad press lately. Mainly centered on this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
A widening scandal over the exchange of emails containing pornography by current and former members of the attorney general's office has gripped the Pennsylvania Capitol all week.
Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court chief justice demanded information on whether any judges were part of the exchanges. Gov. Tom Corbett, who was attorney general when the emails were exchanged, was forced to defend his management of the office as he campaigns for a second term.
And on Thursday, two top officials who followed Corbett from the attorney general's office into his gubernatorial administration resigned.
Corbett disclosed the resignations of Environmental Protection Secretary Christopher Abruzzo and Glenn Parno, a top lawyer in the Department of Environmental Protection, in separate announcements hours apart, just as the attorney general's office was releasing copies of their email messages to the governor's office and news organizations.
Their departures came a week after Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office identified them as being among eight ex-employees who sent or received hundreds of pornographic images or videos in emails that were discovered during Kane's review of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse prosecution. - Huffington Post, 10/3/14
And Democrats are also going after Corbett on this:
http://www.philly.com/...
During his second debate with Democrat Tom Wolf Tuesday, Gov. Corbett boasted that there were 250,000 good-paying jobs on the state jobs website.
He has pointed to the PA job gateway website before to demonstrate that unemployed Pennsylvanians can find work if they look for it.
The Campaign for a Fresh Start, a political action committee Wolf founded to help him defeat Corbett’s bid for reelection, has beenlooking, in fact, mining the website and came up with a few risque employment "opportunities."
On Monday the PAC provided screenshots of want ads for bachelor party dancers, "hot women" for the "casting couch" and racy ads for hosteses and masseuses, which the Corbett administration swiftly removed.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Labor & Industry said the site has been "scrubbed" and that the offending ads brought in from other sites represent only .002 percent of the quarter million jobs listed.
"We have always and will continue to monitor the site; as well, anyone looking at the site can report what they believe to be an inappropriate posting and we will remove it," said L&I spokeswoman Sara Goulet.
Today the Wolf PAC dug a little deeper and discovered that tens of thousands of jobs posted are, well, not in Pennsylvania.
The PAC's researchers found 51,389 of the job opportunities Corbett was touting were located outside Pennsylvania - some of them way outside of Pennsylvania. There was a retail sales job in Mexico, a pre-school teacher opening in Taiwan and a listing for an infrastructure engineer in Iraq. - Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/2/14
Womp womp! It's clear we are going to win this race but lets see if we can get other Democrats elected. Click here to donate and get involved with Wolf's campaign, State Senator Mike Stack's (D. PA) Lt. Governor campaign, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and Manan Trivedi (D. PA-06) and Kevin Strouse's (D. PA-08) campaigns:
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