A number of good candidates for the GOP in Pennsylvania in ’10 potentially, and the current Republican A.G. Tom Corbett makes a strong case with back to back statewide victories, 2004 and 2008, during one of the most challenging decades for Republicans in Pennsylvania in recent memory.  From the Times Leader Dispatch:

Democrats have been on a winning streak in recent statewide elections: Barack Obama carried Pennsylvania handily on his way to the White House, state House Democrats widened their majority from one seat to five, and the party recaptured control of the state Supreme Court.Will it last through 2010, when Pennsylvanians will elect a governor to succeed Democrat Ed Rendell?

Tradition says no, it’s the Republicans’ turn.

Since the 1950s, even before the state constitution was amended to allow governors to serve two four-year terms, voters have regularly replaced the party in charge of state government every eight years. Some call it the “eight-year itch.”

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