READ FULL STORY HERETom Corbett is still the front runner in the race to become Pennsylvania’s next Governor. In neighboring New Jersey meanwhile fellow Republican Chris Christie gets a passing grade for his job performance through three months.
Today’s new poll release compliments of Rasmussen Reports shows State Attorney General Corbett holding a large lead over three other Democratic hopefuls. While Corbett’s numbers haven’t improved since last month’s polling the new figures indicate a lead of twenty-percentage points over Congressman Joe Hoeffel and a 21% advantage over State Auditor Jack Wagner. That said Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato appears to be gaining ground. Although he still trails Corbett 45-36% that figure is a marked improvement from March polling that saw him trailing 46-29% and a considerable bump from February when Rasmussen showed Onorato behind by a two-to-one margin, 52-26%.
Tom Corbett is viewed “very” favorably by 19% of Pennsylvanians with another 14% holding a “very” unfavorable opinion. Dan Onorato receives split support, 16-15%, from those with strong feelings. Joe Hoeffel and Jack Wagner meanwhile and mired in the negatives. Hoeffel’s very favorable to very unfavorable margin is 7-11% with Jack Wagner fairing even worse to the tune of a 5-11% split.
Moving the political spotlight from the Keystone State to the Garden State Rasmussen finds Governor Chris Christie off to a decent start with New Jersey voters. His approval to disapproval margin is a respectable 53-45%, a total that includes 32% who strongly approve and 30% who strongly disapprove of the job the Governor has done just three months in. There is a considerable party divide with 80% of Republicans and 64% of independents giving Christie positive marks but 70% of Democrats issuing an early failing grade.
Other New Jersey polling shows that well more than half of voters (57%) believe incumbents at all levels in the state should be defeated in the midterm elections this November. Locally speaking those figures are more evenly split with 31% of the opinion that their representative should be reelected against 32% who believe they should be defeated.
Chris Christie defeated the widely unpopular sitting Governor Jon Corzine last November in one of the more reliably Democratic states in the country. At the time he took office voters held a 57-35% favorable to unfavorable view of the new Governor meaning that despite his solid approval numbers at present they do represent something of a modest decline in popularity since January.
PHOTO CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS / MEL EVANS
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