why was Tom Corbett so hated?

[© tweed]

adjusting for national context he got destroyed, in a 2006-2008 environment he may have lost more like 60-40

[Boston Bread]

When people hear so and so is unpopular, they begin to believe it. Corbett got the negative end of that stick compared to other republicans who did similar things yet won.

[Keystone Phil]

Comb through the PA thread. Some of us posted it enough times. 

When people hear so and so is unpopular, they begin to believe it. Corbett got the negative end of that stick compared to other republicans who did similar things yet won.

And letting the opposition define you as early and often as they did was fatal. And when he did respond, people didn't see it as endearing, Christie-esque straight talk.

[Mr. Smith]

Corbett was always a snake,and unlike the other Democratic Parties they (the Pennsylvania Dems) said it as it was and defined in the clear.

The others either failed to hit the loud pedal enough and foolishly let themselves be defined (as the blue avvies say it was  for Corbett.) or were already in an uphill battle [as was the case for most of the elections in the South]

[Vega]

He offended every electoral group in Pennsylvania.

[DemPGH]

He was produced solely and exclusively by the political climate in 2010. He set out to 1) completely destroy the public sector (and this is not a state wherein you want to try to do that), 2) his social views are conservative by rural southern standards, and 3) his anti-education views turned off conservative people. If it had not been for such a GOP friendly cycle, he would have easily lost 60-40. I don't know who voted for him. It's anecdotal, but there are some very, very GOP people I know who voted Wolf.

[RI]

Obligatory link.

[patrick1]

Obligatory link.

I just dont get the Penn Staters.  Then again I am also a Roman Catholic but I at least acknowledge the abhorrent abdication of the moral duty to protect children.

[tpfkaw]

Yeah, it's pretty obvious that the Paterno cultists are the sole reason for his loss, given that the PA GOP otherwise had its best election result in 9 decades.

[Keystone Phil]

He was produced solely and exclusively by the political climate in 2010. He set out to 1) completely destroy the public sector (and this is not a state wherein you want to try to do that), 2) his social views are conservative by rural southern standards, and 3) his anti-education views turned off conservative people. If it had not been for such a GOP friendly cycle, he would have easily lost 60-40. I don't know who voted for him. It's anecdotal, but there are some very, very GOP people I know who voted Wolf.

Exclusively because of the 2010 climate? The guy won tough statewide races in 2004 and 2008. He didn't just fall into the Governorship.