Politics & Government

Next Pennsylvania Governor to Be Decided Tuesday

Democrat Tom Wolf is challenging Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in Tuesday's election for Pennsylvania Governor.

The next governor of Pennsylvania will be decided in Tuesday election.

Democrat Tom Wolf is challenging Republican incumbent Tom Corbett, who ran unopposed in the primary election.

Wolf, a businessman from York County, served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue under the Rendell Administration. He attended Dartmouth College and went on to earn a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Corbett, who was was elected as Pennsylvania’s 46th Governor in 2010, is from Allegheny County. He is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College who went on to St. Mary’s University School of Law. He previously served as Pennsylvania’s attorney general. Corbett is a lifelong resident on Pennsylvania.

FiveThirtyEight, an election forecasting blog by Nate Silver, gives Wolf a 99 percent chance at victory. The majority of recent polls have found Wolf with double digit leads over Corbett.

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