Is the Other Penn State Shoe About to Drop on PA Gov. Corbett?

     Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett isn't very popular in his home state. An Inquirer Pennsylvania Poll found that only 38 percent of Pennsylvanians approve of the job Gov. Corbett is doing in Harrisburg. However he's not alone, he's in the same boat with many of his GOP governors who won in 2010's Tea Party-fueled midterm election.

    The real story here is Gov. Corbett appears to also be very unpopular within the Republican Party these last few weeks. He's been MIA from the Romney/Ryan surrogate circle, and even more conspicuous was that he was not in attendance when Rep. Ryan made stops in Pittsburgh and SEPA this past week.  Where was the governor? He was in the Poconos, on the other side of the state, looking at the scenic Delaware River, getting heckled by anti-fracking groups, and telling local business leaders that there would be no money for tourism until the budget is fixed.  The Romney campaign seems to want Gov. Corbett as far away from them as possible.

     Could this just be an issue of wanting to keep bad polling numbers away from a Presidential nominee who has polling issues of his own, or is it about the other question the Inquirer asked in it's latest poll?  61 percent of PA voters disapprove of his handling of the Sandusky case while Corbett was the PA AG.  Social Conservative leaders in the state have already been wanting answers from Corbett as to why he handled the case like he did.

     After the Akin debacle, one can only assume that Romney doesn't want a man connected to the most vile crime scandal of the last decade to be within 100 miles of his campaign, especially a man who is the governor of a critical swing state.