Attorney General Race Heats Up

TheWGALChannel.com ^ | April 27, 2004 | TheWGALChannel.com

[Impy]

The attorney general is one of the state's most heated primary races, but polls show most voters have no idea whom to pick.

The Republican race for state attorney general appears to be wide open.

News 8 found that you'd be hard pressed to find voters that can even name any of the candidates running for attorney general.

In the News 8 Keystone poll that came out just last Wednesday of 400 registered Republicans polled, 71 percent reported they are undecided. The poll showed 16 percent favored Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor, and 13 percent favor former Attorney General Tom Corbett. Because there are so many undecided voters, each candidate is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads attacking his opponent.

Both candidates said that their statements about their opponent are true and justified, and what their opponent said about them are false and misleading.

The candidates said while some voters said they don't like negative attack ads, they educate voters about the type of people running for attorney general.

"Corbett never disputes the things we're saying about him, because they're all true, and in our ad, and we've changed it, he's engaged in an outright lie," Castor said.

"I think that's for the people of Pennsylvania to decide. We laid out the facts. We laid out every one of the facts," Corbett said.

Whoever wins the Republican race will face one of three Democrats running in the primary. They are attorney Jim Eisenhower, who has the backing of Gov. Ed Rendell, former U.S. Attorney for the Susquehanna Valley David Barasch, and Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli.

Since 1980, when Pennsylvania started electing its attorney general, a Democrat has never won that race. Some Republicans fear the split between Castor and Corbett is so great that the Democrat may win the office in the fall.

[Impy]

Who do you think is better? From news artices and visiting their websites I'm thinking Castor.

[Clintonfatigued]

Here are the primary results:


Tom Corbett 496,795 53%
Bruce Castor 440,531 47%

Castor is from Montgomery County, which is RINO country. Corbett is probably more conservative. But again, Corbett has never won an election before.

[Impy]

Well it doesn't matter now...

But both men are Pro-life and Castor came out against gay marriage and supports ending parole for violent offenders (Corbett doesn't support ending parole).

So maybe he was a little better. *shrug*

Rendell will be pushing hard for the rats to win this office which they haven't held since it's been elected. The rat is a distant relative of President Ike.

[Impy]

Rendell=failed haha.