[...] Dan Hirshhorn at Pa2010 has this from inside the Tom Knox camp: [...]

Political campaigns 101. Only desperate candidates leak internal polling.

Read between the lines. There are nearly twice as many Democratic voters in Philly, so if Knox and Onorato are tied — it means that Onorato has locked up his base, while a large portion of Philly is up-for-grabs. Philly voters got to know Tom Knox in 2007 and they rejected him.

I heard that Tom Knox was involved in the payday loan industry. Does anyone know if that’s really true?

I wonder why they did not release the full poll. You would think that they tested Wagner – Knox and Cunningham – Knox. Maybe those numbers don’t look as good for Knox as the Onorato match up.

T0 anonymous — the “lock up” of the base is not a logical conclusion for this data. If all four guys are in the race, three are tied and one is trailing but still in the game. Most voters are understandably waiting to see how the campaign develops. I hope to support a progressive candidate and not the corporatist Democrats like Onorato. I would even prefer someone who made their own money like Knox rather than pay for play guys.

Doing a poll a year out. I guess that is how you spend $11 million and lose. Man, this guy’s campaign is taking him for a ride one more time.

Funny. Didn’t his campaign manager just lose badly in Philly on another race? He must pull this polling trick on all his clients.

I agree ObamaRox, I’m glad this poll was released, its about time someone else besides Onorato got all the media attention, and from what I can tell, Knox is the real deal, a self-made man. I respect him and his story.

Knox or Wagner would be fine with me, both are veterans, I respect a man who has served our country

Whenever reporters cite ‘party insiders’ they mean the Fast Eddie mob. Fast Eddie and his gang want to continue their reign of error and taxes and spending to help themselves at our expense. That’s why they want Onorato. He’s another pay to play career politician.

I agree with you GOPHAWK, thats why we need someone new in office, not a typical career politician who can be bought

Tom Knox has been engaged in pay-to-play politics for years – paying tens of thousands of dollars to every politician under the sun to get a piece of the pie for his businesses. There is no way THAT guy makes pay-to-play an issue in this campaign.

Well, we just found out the price of pay to play for the next three years … a 17% hike in taxes on working people. Let’s see if any of these guys come out against Fast Eddie’s plan.

Im going for Onorato. He has the best chance, what is known in Southeastern PA is the fact that Tom Knox engaged in predatory lending. Onorato is our best chance for victory in 2010. Id like to see an Onorato Cunningham ticket. Knox is not known at all in the rest of the state, with exception of his predatory lending.

I’ll take predatory lending over predatory pay to play anytime. Fortunately, I don’t have to. Our GOP prosecutors are going to win. They will take down Ono-blago and his payoffs from the Port Authority;s tunnel to nowhere.