PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Two years after Pennsylvania gave its 21 electoral votes to Barack Obama and four years after it elected a new Democratic senator and unseated four Republican congressmen, signs are strong that the Keystone State may be shifting into the Republican column this fall and in a big way.
Republicans candidates said the main reason for the change in fortunes was voters souring on President Obama, which won the state 54% to 44% over Sen. John McCain in 2008.
The most recent Rasmussen Poll showed that Republicans are favored to take both the seat of Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter (who lost the May primary to Rep. Joe Sestak), with conservative GOPer Pat Toomey leading Sestak by a margin of 45% to 39% statewide.
In the race for the governor, which Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell is relinquishing after eight years, Republican State Atty. Gen. Tom Corbett holds a healthy 49% to 33% lead over Democrat Dan Onorato, the Allegheny County executive.
In addition, after two straight election cycles of U.S. House seats in Pennsylvania going from Republican to Democrat (the GOP lost four House seats in the state in ’06, and one in ’08), both pundits and pols are saying that Republicans could pick up as many as seven in the state.
Friday, July 9, 2010
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