• Tom Corbett is maintaining a 10-point lead in the gubernatorial race against Pittsburgh Democrat Dan Onorato, according to today’s poll from Rasmussen. Corbett leads with 49 to Onorato’s 39 percent. Corbett also just released a new ad highlighting examples of wasteful spending he would cut as governor.
  • In a strange aside, an independent candidate for U.S. House is now relying solely on his cell phone for his campaign after his campaign office in northeastern Pennsylvania was closed. The landlord failed to obtain a $25 zoning permit to allow for the space to be used by the campaign.
  • Pennsylvania’s former Republican Gov. Dick Thornburgh is calling for the expiration of all Bush era tax cuts, but has said that revenue raised from increased taxes should be awarded to the states as block grants to fund science and technology ventures.
  • Tom Marino, the low-on-cash insurgent Republican vying to defeat blue-dog Rep. Chris Carney in Pennsylvania’s eastern 10th district, is hoping for Sarah Palin’s endorsement to put him over the top. Marino has been polling competitively with Carney despite the representative’s serious cash advantage of a few hundred thousand dollars.
  • The Pennsylvania Republican Party is stepping into awkward territory after one of its committee chairmen voted to strip Philadelphia’s Vito Canuso of his position as head of the Republican City Committee (the Philly GOP) due to serious “irregularities” in how he was voted into his position. Rob Gleason, the chairman of the state-wide party, has said further action will proceed after Election Day.