GOP comes home for Gov. Corbett - too slow, too late

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IN A WIDELY anticipated political migration, disaffected Republicans are coming home to Gov. Corbett's re-election campaign.

But a Franklin & Marshall College/Daily News poll released today shows that the movement appears to be too little, too late.

Democrat Tom Wolf still holds an 18-point lead on Corbett among registered voters, 50 percent to 32 percent - the same margin found in a Sept. 25 poll.

Corbett has gained ground among self-identified "likely voters" in Tuesday's general election. Today's poll results show Wolf with a 13-point lead in that group, 53 percent to 40 percent - down from a 20-point lead of 54 percent to 34 percent Sept. 25.

Pollster G. Terry Madonna said Corbett's job-approval numbers are climbing with GOP voters, up from 39 percent in August to 56 percent this month.

But 60 percent of voters in the poll still predict that Wolf will win.

"It's not enough to make a difference," Madonna said of Corbett's growing GOP support.

This is a stark representation of the challenges Corbett faces in what is normally an easy political rite of passage in Pennsylvania.

< So much for trailing by only 7%

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[merrily]

1. GOTV, Pennsy. Never coast!

[bigdarryl]

2. Just proves that republicans are stupid

If there was a choice between a good democrat and a republican who was a child molester they would vote for the child molester republican.

[davidpdx]

3. I'd love to see Corbett, Scott, and Walker all lose

[DebJ]

4. Boy that would make my bye-bye Corbett partying next week even sweeter!

[Cosmocat]

5. Joe Paterno

that simple.

He will be the first one term governor of PA in my nearly 50 years for that reason only.

He could have done everything else he has done - sold out education, the environment to natural gas frackers, even the lottery system in typical republican hubris, and it would not matter.

Except he drove the firing of Joe Paterno.

I knew there would be some republicans coming home at this point, but I personally know countless straight party republicans who won't vote for him over the Paterno firing.