Pennsylvania 2014 Discussion Thread

[Badger]

Corbett hoping for a Gray Davis-esque comeback: he should start running TV Ads, attacking the strongest Democrat he fears most and hope that they nominate the weakest Dem nominee for the governorship.

Of course, Corbett will run as the Anti-Fed, Anti-Obama, States Rights candidate.

Which in a governor's race in a (non-Atlas) blue state, won't do him much good. Which is why he likely won't adopt such a stupid strategy.

I don't think running against Obama is a stupid strategy at all even if it's for a non-federal race. Yeah, the state voted for Obama. Twice. But he's not immune from unpopularity now because of that.

Corbett will definitely be banking on Anti Obama sentiments to try to hang on. It's a big reason why he so obviously wants to face Schwartz.

And, for the record, Corbett has been running ads against Wolf (the thought-to-be strongest Dem).

Well, if he's litterally got that little else to run on, then I guess any plan is better than none.

I just can't see many swing voters changing their votes for governor over Benghazi and opposing Obamacare.

[Badger]

Half-assed guess: Wolf falls short of 50%, but still finishes miles ahead of Schwartz who takes second.

[Badger]

SoS website shows almost all the vote in for HD 197 and incumbent Jose Mirand getting only 5% of the vote. If that's not a typo, what happened? Did he die in office?

And incumbent Ed Gainey getting only 8% in HD 24?

[Badger]

Crawley has 23K more votes than Corbett a lot of Republicans leaving Governor blank...

It would've been interesting to see how high Guzzardi would've gotten, but I guess that's why Corbett got him kicked off the ballot, to avoid an embarrassingly high showing.

In other news, Wolf has swept every county in the state. His closest call was Schwartz's home turf of Montgomery County, which he won by about 500 votes.

Well, I was going to cry for a map, but..... :-P

Wow, I though Schwartz would've at least won a couple counties in her district. Did she even beat McCord for second?

[Badger]

I'm still waiting for Wenzel or Vox Populi to show Corbett #dominating.

The Kanegate effect will kick in any day now, of course.

[Badger]

I'm still waiting for Wenzel or Vox Populi to show Corbett #dominating.

The Kanegate effect will kick in any day now, of course.

The what?

Kane, the last "great liberal hope," became involved in a major scandal.

"last"?

[Badger]

The PA Fraternal Order of Police endorses Wolf after supporting Corbett in 2010.

Everybody wants to back a winner. Details at 11.

[Badger]

The PA Fraternal Order of Police endorses Wolf after supporting Corbett in 2010.

Wow. It's rare for them to endorse a Democrat.

Is it? In PA maybe? I know they recently endorsed the entire Dem slate for statewide offices (except SoS) in Ohio, though admittedly that's influenced by memories of SB 5, Though I think they backed Strickland too.

[Badger]

Special Prosecutor investigating Kane's office - http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=273355891&

But Kane has nothing to worry about. Some kids on their computers said so.

No, what some kids on their computer said is Wolf has nothing to worry about over this.

They're right.

[Badger]

Special Prosecutor investigating Kane's office - http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=273355891&

But Kane has nothing to worry about. Some kids on their computers said so.

No, what some kids on their computer said is Wolf has nothing to worry about over this.

They're right.

Wrong. Several said the Kane scandal was just "partisan hackery," overblow and not real trouble for her. I'm not posting this as a connection to the Gubernatorial race just as their comments were made separate of the race as well.

Meh, I seem to remember most of the response (though yes, not all) being to JJ's hackery that this may unite Republicans and give Corbett a shot, yadda yadda.

But we're probably debating semantics as Kane's challenge to Toomey is clearly DOA, and at this rate she'll be in serious trouble to simply survive re-election.

[Badger]

Corbett's website photoshopped a black woman standing next to him.

LOL

Just read the article including his prior comment about having Latinos in the cabinet. "Let us know if you find any"?!?