So less than 50 percent of residents of the state of PA are dissatisfied... are those voters who will actually vote come Tuesday, Primary election day in PA?
May 13, 2006
Rendell's lead over Swann rises to 55%-33%, poll shows
Increase attributed to TV campaign. A third say they could change their minds.
By John L. Micek
Call Harrisburg Bureau
| Gov. Ed Rendell doubled his lead over Lynn Swann in the past month, but a third of Pennsylvania voters could change their minds before November, a new Quinnipiac University poll has found...
...Voters should also pay attention, Alcivar argued, to the 47 percent of Keystone State residents in the new Quinnipiac poll who say they're very or somewhat dissatisfied with how things are going in Pennsylvania. That, he claimed, was a more accurate barometer of Rendell's leadership....
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http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5qpollmay13,0,3909176.story?coll=all-news-hed
Rendell leads Swann by 22 points in poll
Rendell leads Swann by 22 points, poll says
Saturday, May 13, 2006
BY SHARON SMITH
Of The Patriot-News
Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell enjoys a 22-point lead over his Republican challenger Lynn Swann, a new Quinnipiac University Poll shows.
If the election were held today, 55 percent of those surveyed said that they would vote for Rendell, while 33 percent would vote for Swann, according to the poll.
The poll surveyed 1,487 Pennsylvania voters between May 2 and May 8 and has a 2.5 percent margin of error...
...Lenny Alcivar, Swann's campaign spokesman, dismissed the poll as not credible. He pointed to other polls that show the race between Rendell and Swann as being much closer. For example, the IssuesPA/Pew poll released earlier this week put the two candidates within 1-point of each other. A recent Patriot-News/WGAL-TV Keystone Poll showed Rendell had a 14-point lead over Swann.
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http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1147511127157270.xml&coll=1
See how the next article's reporter makes commentary within the news article. Actually, Swann said all along the plan was for the long-term, rather than the short-term. Spokespersons for Swann's tax reform plan highlighted the fact the proposal would necessitate an amendment, but the media focused instead on tax experts who criticized the plan as "unconstitutional." also, by using terms like for the first time, vague, still unreleased without attributing the sentiments to somebody critiquing Swann's plan, it is the "journalist" who is commenting. That's fine, when the article is on the opinion page of the newspaper, but not when the article is considered a news article.
May 12, 2006
Swann's tax plan would need constitutional amendment
He's vague on details but says relief would take up to three years.
By John L. Micek
Call Harrisburg Bureau
| Republican gubernatorial hopeful Lynn Swann has acknowledged for the first time that his still unreleased property tax plan would probably require a constitutional amendment.
During a campaign stop in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, the former Steelers star said it could take up to three years before homeowners see real relief.
That's roughly the same amount of time that Swann has accused Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell of wasting on his efforts to deliver tax relief to homeowners.
''You're asking me if it's going to take two or three years to get it done if there's a constitutional challenge,'' Swann said in a report published Thursday in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. ''Yes, there will be, and it will take that amount of time.''
In a brief question-and-answer session at a Pittsburgh high-tech company, Swann also derided last week's aborted compromise on tax reform as a ''Band-Aid'' to a problem that requires a permanent solution.
''If you want to have real reform and do something meaningful for the long term, you're going to have to dig down deep enough to make sure that it's foundational,'' he said.
Swann has so far released only one major component of his reform plan — capping local property taxes. Voters will have to wait until May 22 to learn the full details, his campaign said Thursday.
Meanwhile, experts have suggested that Swann's cap proposal could run afoul of a constitutional requirement that mandates uniform taxation.
And in a best-case scenario, changing the constitution to avert that problem could take years. Amendments must be approved in two consecutive legislative sessions and then be sent to the voters at a statewide referendum.
Swann's campaign said Thursday that an amendment will be part of a reform package that will also include short-term relief. However, they would not say what that relief was...
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a6_5swannmay12,0,4306240.story
