From Public Policy Poling, a firm that has sometimes been accused of being liberal-leaning, but nonetheless got pretty close in their prediction of the PA Gov race last year:
To the list of states already regretting their new Republican Governor you can add Pennsylvania: Tom Corbett has only a 34% approval rating to 44% of voters disapproving of him and voters say that if they could do it all over again now they’d vote for Democrat Dan Onorato instead, by a 49-44 margin over Corbett.
Exit polls last year showed Corbett defeating Onorato by 18 points with independent voters. Now Corbett has only a 31% approval rating with them to 38% who disapprove and those folks say they’d vote for Onorato by a 45-41 margin in a redo. In addition to independents turning against all of these newly elected Republican Governors, we also found in polling earlier this week that they’ve turned against the new Republican Congress.
In addition to the upside down numbers for Corbett with independents he’s suffering because only 60% of Republicans approve of the job he’s doing. There are actually more GOP voters- 22%- who disapprove of his work so far than there are Democrats- 16%- who think he’s doing a good job.
Voters in the state are pretty ambivalent toward Pat Toomey, which given Corbett and Barack Obama’s unpopularity isn’t necessarily a bad place to be. Toomey has a 32% approval rating with 31% of voters disapproving and 37% expressing no opinion. He’s on narrowly positive ground with independents at 29/25, and benefits because Republicans (51%) are stronger in their approval of him than Democrats (44%) are in their disapproval.
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I agree, we voted on emotion and thats likely the case when the state is democratic Polling shows we would pick onorato If it were done over again. I think most of the opposition is because of his huge education cuts which everyone agrees is a terrible way to balance a budget. There are some things you just can’t cut. America needs to be the strongest nation on education for us to be competitive and ensure economic growth
@ eddie1247.
This has nothing to do about emotions. Republicans want him to take a tougher stand like Walker while Democrats are associating him with Walker despite his mild stand.
I guarantee you most of those interviewed could not name a single thing that he proposed in his budget but would just associate his budget with some of the other states with GOP governors.
This is what happens when you allow emotions to dictate your actions. People were determined to show their disapproval of the Democrats back in November,now we all suffer the consequences.