We're getting another visit from Gov. Tom Corbett today.
He will do an event at a VFW Post in the Folsom section of Ridley this afternoon. And he's expected to stop in out at Maris Grove in Concord after that.
Get used to it.
The governor knows that he needs every vote he can find in southeastern Pennsylvania as he faces an uphill re-election race vs. Democrat businessman Tom Wolf.
Corbett desperately needs some good news. And he may have gotten just a little yesterday. After two polls earlier in the week showed that a summer blitz of TV advertising going on the attack against Wolf did little or nothing to help him in the polls, the Republican incumbent got some better news yesterday.
A Harper Polling survey still shows Corbett trailing, but by much less than polls earlier in the week from Franklin & Marshall as well as one from Robert Morris University Polling Institute, both of which had Corbett trailing badly. In fact, the RMU poll actually showed Wolf's lead increase after the Corbett ad blits, with the governor down 55.5 percent to 24.7 percent.
The Harper Poll has the margin at a much more manageable margin, 52-41. One thing that might concern the governor, however. The poll, done by a GOP firm, shows just 53 percent of Republicans think he will win. That could make money start to dry up, especially if the national party decides to focus elsewhere.
Of course there will be something else very interesting about the visit today.
I'm wondering if Tom McGarrigle will stop by.
The Republican County Council chairman is seeking the open 26th District state Senate seat created by the retirement of Sen. Ted Erickson. His race against Democratic union leader John Kane is expected to be perhaps the most hotly contested race in the state outside of the governor's campaign.
But McGarrigle had made no secret that he disagrees with the governor when it comes to an extraction tax on drilling in the state's booming Marcellus Shale regions.
He wants a 4 percent levy, with the money going to education.
Corbett wants no part of a new tax, saying he's afraid it will hurt job growth and stunt a growing business.
It should be noted that McGarrigle and Corbett have worked closely together, in particular on packages that helped rescue the region's ailing refineries.
We'll see what happens later today.
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