Posted on 11/04/2014 7:44:52 PM PST by Phillyred
Democrat Tom Wolf, a businessman from central Pennsylvania, was elected governor Tuesday in his first campaign for political office.
Republican Tom Corbett became the first incumbent governor to lose reelection in the state's modern history.
"We need to restablish education as the priority in the state of Pennsyvlania," Wolf said, speaking to supporters at the York Expo Center shortly after 10 p.m., after thanking Corbett for his service to the state.
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How come Corbett lost? That seems like a shocker to me.
PA is full of libs, city libs and union libs.
My M I L is on that track but is in central (literally) PA, rural and small town yet I have not met a conservative there yet.
swhen I would hear my liberal friends talk, they HATED Corbett. They made him sound like Genghis Khan.
Corbett lost on people believing he was a problem here in PA. Wolf ran a campaign bashing Corbett on not charging an extraction tax on gas companies, but the school districts raising property taxes. Plus, Corbett approved the gas tax here, which didn’t go over well with anyone.
Wolf was effective in his campaign, but PA is really a red state with the exception of Philly and Pittsburgh. He was planning on hiking the income tax, which I don’t think will happen with a Republican Senate and House.
The more states oxidize in the rust belt, the more you see motivated people leave looking for greener pastures. What is left behind often leans left. The only corrections come when the census pulls seats and electoral votes from dying states.
Corbett raised the gas tax in the state. Beyond that, there is construction on the roads EVERYWHERE. My usual 45 minute commute now takes me 1-1.5 hours. People are pissed, they blame Corbett.
Unions won tonight, Corbett was a flat out idiot and nothing can deny that.
PA is NOT full of libs. The cities are which number two, maybe three in the STATE. The rest of PA is very conservative beyond the old folks who think they are voting for democrats of old. PA has the second oldest elderly count second to Florida. Hate to say it, when the old die off is when PA becomes different/better. It will be another couple decades though; maybe the state can keep up those pension payments; we’ll see.
I will concede to your experience. But it has to have many to keep flopping between parties. Guess you can say PA is truly “open-minded” and thus is famous as a “swing” state.
The Washington County web site has Corbett over Wolf 51.6 to 48.2.
http://www.co.washington.pa.us/index.aspx?NID=280
We’ll stonewall, block, impede, and otherwise shove it up his keister.
Especially if he and his lunatic AG Kane try any gun control bullsh*t.
We survived Rendell, we’ll survive this assclown.
Wolf won because Corbett didn’t fight back, pretty much period.
When you let the other guy have the microphone and the megaphone and spout garbage, this is what happens.
Corbett is a good, decent man. But didn’t punch back. And he lost.
Bush did the same thing, and the country wound up with the fraud we have now as a result (of course, running crazy McCain and Romneycare as our candidates didn’t help either).
BAd news, but the GOP picked up a couple of governorships in blue states and may get one more.
Sounds like Corbett took lots of sound, solid advice from unflappable GOP professionals... like Karl Rove.
Yep. He ran an abysmal campaign, let himself be defined by the opposition, and didn't support the committee people who were trying to help him get re-elected. We couldn't get campaign literature or signs, let alone candidate visibility. If he wanted to be re-elected he sure didn't act like it.
The chairman of the PA GOP needs to find a new job. Like, today.
This should have been a slam-dunk win for Corbett, but like poster Think free or die said, he let himself be defined by the opposition.
During the primary battle on the dimwit side, Corbett should have been out there painting every one of those idiots as the leftwing lunatics they are.
Bottom line - I don’t think Corbett wanted it anymore.
A man fights for what he wants, what he believes in, and for when he believes he’s right. Corbett is a fundamentally good and decent guy, but he wasn’t putting up any fight.
The PA GOP should be taking a long, hard look at exactly who they have running the show, and then find someone who WILL fight back.
Corbett may have deserved to lose... but the people of PA don’t deserve to have a democrat foisted on us because of a GOP lack of spine to fight back.
They want better roads but without the interruptions? Figures. The only way to do that is to consume more real estate building the new road in parallel.
Is this the only slot for governor or Congress that actually switched from red to blue in this election? Reports also say Corbett is the only PA governor in history not to win a second term. What a legacy. The results weren’t even close.
The gas tax was a joke considering this is already somewhere around the top 10 highest-taxed states in the nation. The tax situation here is heading solidly in the direction of NY and NJ no matter which party gets elected. So if he lost on the “no new taxes” angle like Bush 1, that seems fitting. Of course none of the news articles are even mentioning that as a reason.
From what I can tell, the electorate in Pennsylvania is saying we want a bunch of government services but we want the state to tax businesses, not us, for them. The maturity to accept cuts in government services is simply not there.
In 2016, the Republican presidential candidate should completely write off Pennsylvania. McCain and Romney spent a lot of time here which went nowhere. This election should be the nail in the coffin as far as running a presidential campaign here.
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