US Gov Race Primary Head to Head:
Onorato 16% Wagner 16% Knox 13%
Corbett 38% Gerlach 15% Meehan 9%

Favorable/Unfavorable:
Onorato: 16%-6%
Wagner: 18%-4%
Knox: 10%-4%
Corbett: 38%-6%
Gerlach: 16%-6%
Meehan: 12%-3%

Approve/Disapprove of job handling:
Rendell: 39%-53%
State Legislature: 27%-57%
Corbett: 55%-8%

Blame for failure to pass budget:
Rendell: 30%
Reps in Legislature: 17%
Dems in Legislature: 11%

Raise taxes or cut services to balance budget:
Raise taxes: 35%
Cut services: 55%

Rendell’s personal income tax hike 3.07% to 3.57%:
Support: 33%
Oppose: 63%

Direction of state:
‘On The Wrong track” 48%
“Headed in the Right Direction” 44%

Better or worse off compared to year ago:
“Worse off” 43%
Same: 45%

Job Rating: Excellent/Good/Only fair/Poor
Obama: 20%-35%-25%-19%
Specter: 10%-24%-37%-18%
Rendell: 10%-28%-34%-25%

Specter Approval Rating (March vs. June):
March: 52% June: 34%

Favorable/Unfavorable/Undecided/Don’t Know:
Obama: 56%-27%
Specter: 31%-37%
Casey: 32%-17%-17%-34%
Rendell: 42%-40%

Specter re-election (March vs. June):
March: Deserves re-election: 40% Time for a change: 46%
June: Deserves re-election: 28% Time for a change: 57%

US Senate Primary Head to Head:
Specter: 33%
Sestak: 13%
Don’t Know: 48%

State Legislature’s job:
Excellent: 1%
Good: 26%
Only Fair: 49%
Poor: 18%

Quality of government in Pennsylvania:
Excellent: 3%
Good: 29%
Only Fair: 48%
Poor: 18%

How to deal with state budget deficit?:
Increase taxes: 29%
Cut state programs and services: 44%
Neither: 20%

Company Sales in last 6 months:
Increased 13.3%
Same 24.3%
Decreased 61.5%

Positives/Negatives of official:
Barack Obama: 26.4%-63.4%
Arlen Specter: 24.4%-60.0%
Robert P. Casey: 13.8%-54.2%
Ed Rendell: 13.8%-75.1%
Attorney General Tom Corbett: 37.9%-12.9%
Auditor General Jack Wagner: 13.8%-13.3%

Positives/Negatives of govt:
US Senate: 9.7%-80.1%
US House: 6.6%-82.7%
PA Senate: 17.7%-57.1%
PA House: 12.0%-62.7%

Favor or oppose ‘Card Check’:
Favor: 3.2%
Oppose: 89.5% (80.8% Strongly)

Position on Auto Bailout:
Favor: 11.4%
Oppose: 86.3% (58% strongly)

Raise taxes or cut spending to close state budget deficit?
Raise Taxes 0.5%
Cut Spending 81.7%
Combination of two 16.1%

Gov Primary Head to Head (R):
Tom Corbett 72.2%
Pat Meehan 10.2%
Jim Gerlach 17.6%

US Senate Primary Head to Head (R):
Arlen Specter 15.3%
Pat Toomey 63.7%
Peg Luksik 4.5%

(Lincoln Institute Analysis on this survey)