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" If you want to see a politician with the gallows in his eyes, take a look at Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, whose re-election prospects at the moment look like an offer for a free introductory case of cholera. Pennsylvania voters disapprove of the first-term Republican&amp;#039;s job performance 47-38 percent (which follows a four-month trend of bad numbers for the incumbent). From the pollsters: Former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak tops Corbett 48 -- 34 percent, including 45 -- 29 percent among independent voters: U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz is ahead 47 -- 34 percent, including 45 -- 27 percent among independent voters: State Treasurer Rob McCord is up 44 -- 35 percent, including 40 -- 30 percent among independent voters. Tom&amp;#039;s got a ready reply, however, for the news that his approval rating has sunk to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. The incredibly unpopular policies he&amp;#039;s put in place just haven&amp;#039;t really kicked in yet. Mr. Corbett said he isn&amp;#039;t bothered by the poll numbers because budget cuts have been painful and the economic turnaround they were meant to achieve hasn&amp;#039;t fully happened yet. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve been feeling the pain and the economy is only starting to come back,&amp;quot; he said in an interview in Washington Monday afternoon after he spoke at a small-business summit hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And anyway, it isn&amp;#039;t like he&amp;#039;s sucking more pondwater than he was the last time they checked. He said the poll numbers haven&amp;#039;t budged, even though labor groups have been running attack ads against him statewide. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ve got these ads out and it didn&amp;#039;t change the numbers. Wait until we start getting our story out there about what we&amp;#039;re doing,&amp;quot; he said. And he&amp;#039;s not waiting around for someone else to do it, either. Aux armes, citoyens! Tom Corbett&amp;#039;s heading for the battlements of Getting Our Story out there his own self. And pretty much falling off them into the horse trough below. &amp;quot;There are many employers that say we&amp;#039;re looking for people but can&amp;#039;t find anyone who has passed a drug test. That&amp;#039;s a concern for me,&amp;quot; Mr. Corbett, a first-term Republican, said in an interview with PAMatters.com earlier this week. I think any politician with a 47 percent disapproval number who talks like this should be subjected to random drug tests every 50 seconds for the next three years. A lot of the 2010 Republican governors are stumbling, but Corbett is even uniquely unpopular in a crowd that includes Governor Bat Boy down in Florida, but Corbett&amp;#039;s convinced that the tide will turn just as soon as his unpopular economic programs is fully activated. Where does this man buy his mushrooms, and can I come along next time? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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