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Rendell
Wins Governorship
Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell handily won Pennsylvania's
gubernatorial election, scoring 53 percent of the votes, beating
GOP candidate and current state Attorney General Mike Fisher,
who pulled in 44 percent of the votes, according to the state's
official results.
Rendell succeeds GOP Gov. Mark Schweiker, who replaced the popular
Gov. Tom Ridge after President Bush appointed him homeland security
director in Oct. 2001.
Despite
the state's Republican tendencies, Rendell jumped far ahead of
Fisher, a conservative Republican, by winning over the state's
liberal and moderate Republicans (now dubbed 'Rendellicans') and
the Democrats.
Rendell
triumphed with 53 percent of the vote to Fisher's 44 percent,
according to the AP.
(11/13, 9:21 a.m. EST)
Rendell
Bucks Pennsylvania Trend
Update: It's been historically
difficult for a Democrat to pick up steam in a state-wide election
among Pennsylvania's largely conservative voters, but former Philadelphia
Mayor Ed Rendell has built up momentum in his race against state
Attorney General Mike Fisher.
Rendell
currently holds a 20 percent lead, scoring 56 percent of the vote
to Fisher's 36 percent, with some seven percent undecided, a poll
by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute conducted in mid-October
said. "There is no good news anywhere in this poll for Mike Fisher,"
Clay F. Richards, a pollster for Quinnipiac, told Allentown's
Morning Call newspaper Oct. 18. "The numbers are moving heavily
in the wrong direction for [Fisher] and Ed Rendell is pulling
away." (10/24)
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