PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
PA-Gov: Rothenberg Changes Race Rating to "Democrat Favored" :: 08/06/2014
The Rothenberg Political Report changed its rating of the PA governor's race from "Lean Democrat" to "Democrat Favored" on Friday, suggesting that the site has even more reason to believe than it did last month that Democrat Tom Wolf will unseat incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett in November.
The Rothenberg Political Report had been rating PA as "Lean Democrat" since well before the primary, but showed enough additional confidence in the Wolf campaign (or lessened confidence in the Corbett campaign) to make the change. Of the 36 governorships up for grabs in 2014, Pennsylvania is the only one currently favored to switch parties.
After being called the most vulnerable governor in the country by the Washington Post for the 13th straight month and nicknamed "Dead Man Walking" by the National Journal in July, this can't be much of a surprise to the Corbett camp.
Like the Rothenberg Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball has not labeled PA as safely Democrat, but claims that the only thing preventing such a rating is the "power of incumbency."
The Corbett campaign, however, does have a few shreds of hope to hold onto from a recent CBS/NYT poll that put Wolf just nine points ahead of the governor (rather than the 20, 22, or 25 point deficit that other recent polls have found).
