Tom Corbett can't get a break.
A heavy blitz of ads taking on Democratic challenger Tom Wolf failed to move the needle on polls that show him trailing badly.
Corbett got a bit of momentum off a good showing in the first debate that left many of us wonder, 'Where has this guy been the past two years.'
Now Corbett has another problem.
Apparently some of the guys who worked in his office when he was attorney general had a thing for porn.
They received and sent a slew of emails with all kinds of inappropriate material.
Here's the latest, with state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille wondering if any judges were among those sharing these racy emails, and what kind of fallout could result if they were.
And this at a time when his office was conducting the investigation - and being criticized for the way they were going about it - into the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal.
The issue came to light during new Attorney General Kathleen Kane's investigation of the way Corbett's office conducted the probe.
The discussion of some of the images in the emails that have been released so far by Kane's office are enough to make even an old newspaper guy blush.
And all this was being done on state computers.
No one has been charged as yet, and it's not clear even if any rules were broken.
Aside, of course, from the unwritten ones that apparently were not followed by some of Corbett's lieutenants.
It's the last thing Corbett needed. He and Wolf will meet in their second debate Wednesday morning in Philly.
Expect 'Porn-Gate' to be among the things discussed.
Corbett would do well to make some kind of pre-emptive move today, to get out ahead of this controversy, before tomorrow's debate.
He's running out of time to cut into Wolf's lead.
And he's got a lot of Republicans across the state watching - and wondering how much longer they can stand by this guy.
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