As we count down the days to next week's off-year municipal election, some people are already looking forward to 2014.
Topping that ballot will be troubled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. The news didn't get any better for the embattled Republican yesterday.
A new Franklin & Marshall poll reports just one in five Pennsylvania voters believe Corbett is doing an "excellent" or even "good" job. That's 19 percent.
Even worse for a guy staring at a re-election bid, only one in five voters believe he has performed well enough to get another term. And that includes less than half of the Republicans polled, a hard-to-believe 37 percent. Among Democrats and Independents, those numbers sink to just 7 and 19 percent, respectively.
The numbers just keep getting worse for Corbett. According to the poll, there are as many Republicans (44 percent) who believe the governor should step aside for another candidate as believe he should run again (42 percent).
Luckily for Corbett, the election is still a year off.
Aside from some talk from Montco's Bruce Castor - who is always talking - no one in the GOP seems to be ready to step up and challenge the governor.
Corbett is putting together a new team and is starting to go public with his message, focusing on job creation. He's been in southeast Pennsylvania several times in the past couple of weeks.
He's also got the muddled Democratic race on his side. As many as eight Dems look ready to slug it out in the primary for the right to challenge the governor.
In the meantime, you would think that Corbett's numbers can only go up from here.
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