F&M Poll Shows Continuing Support For Wolf Budget
By Tony Romeo
HARRISBURG, Pa., (CBS) -- With the deadline now less than two weeks off, a new Franklin and Marshall College Poll shows most Pennsylvanians continue to support Governor Wolf's budget proposals.
The Franklin and Marshall College Poll shows 58 percent of registered Pennsylvania voters support Governor Wolf's budget proposals, and 39 percent believe Wolf is doing an "excellent" or "good" job. Poll director Terry Madonna says those numbers are unchanged since March, but he says they could go down if the Democratic governor ends up in a stalemate with the Republican-controlled legislature.
"If, in fact there's a protracted budget debate, if services are disrupted, if state employees have payless paydays… all of that would undoubtedly, I think, lead to lower job performance levels," said Madonna.
Forty-nine percent of voters in the F&M Poll support Governor Wolf's moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania, 37 percent oppose it. Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey leads by four points in a match-up with Democrat Joe Sestak.