Corbett lost on people believing he was a problem here in PA. Wolf ran a campaign bashing Corbett on not charging an extraction tax on gas companies, but the school districts raising property taxes. Plus, Corbett approved the gas tax here, which didn’t go over well with anyone.
Wolf was effective in his campaign, but PA is really a red state with the exception of Philly and Pittsburgh. He was planning on hiking the income tax, which I don’t think will happen with a Republican Senate and House.
Wolf won because Corbett didn’t fight back, pretty much period.
When you let the other guy have the microphone and the megaphone and spout garbage, this is what happens.
Corbett is a good, decent man. But didn’t punch back. And he lost.
Bush did the same thing, and the country wound up with the fraud we have now as a result (of course, running crazy McCain and Romneycare as our candidates didn’t help either).