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PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
Thu May 9, 2013, 10:27 AM May 2013

New Franklin Marshall Poll: Only 25% believe Corbett deserves reelection.

A majority of voters, 58 percent, believe Pennsylvania is on the wrong track, and Gov. Tom Corbett's job approval rating remains low among the electorate, according to the latest Franklin & Marshall College Poll.

The poll, conducted of registered voters between April 30 and May 5 at the Center for Opinion Research at F&M, showed only one in four voters, 25 percent, believes Corbett deserves re-election, little changed from 26 percent in Franklin & Marshall College's February poll.

"His job performance continues to be lower than the two previous governors' rating at this time in their terms," said the poll's director, G. Terry Madonna, referring to governors Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell, both of whom won re-lection.

Madonna said that Corbett, with no apparent primary opponent and 18 months until the election, has time to build voter support. "Can he improve enough to win? We don't know," Madonna said.

http://www.fandm.edu/news/article/f-m-college-poll-majority-of-voters-believe-pa-on-wrong-track


Also, support for the sale of state stores has dropped from 53% in February to 47%.

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New Franklin Marshall Poll: Only 25% believe Corbett deserves reelection. (Original Post) PA Democrat May 2013 OP
This idiot has no idea what is important to Pennsylvanians. blue neen May 2013 #1
You can't live and work without clean water. DCKit May 2013 #3
Let's hope that the poll is right Curmudgeoness May 2013 #2

blue neen

(12,308 posts)
1. This idiot has no idea what is important to Pennsylvanians.
Thu May 9, 2013, 02:40 PM
May 2013

Last edited Fri May 10, 2013, 03:06 AM - Edit history (1)

We're worried about jobs far more than we are the privatization of state stores, particularly since PA has dropped to 49th (from 7th) in job growth under Corbett's reign of terror.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
3. You can't live and work without clean water.
Fri May 10, 2013, 02:01 AM
May 2013

Born and raised in PA, but I'll never go back.

The rest (aside from fracking), is just a wet-dream laundry list of corporate welfare. The governor and legislature have mainlined every corporatist dream in PA (and NC, KS, WI and in a few other places).

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