A Philadelphia Daily News/Franklin & Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania finds Gov. Tom Corbett (R) in big trouble for re-election next year.

Kye findings: “Just one in five registered voters think Corbett, who faces challengers from his own political party but no primary-election opponent, deserves a second term. It comes as little surprise that just 7% of Democrats want a second term for Corbett. It’s a problem for Corbett that just 22% of independents want him re-elected. It is potentially disastrous that just 38% of Republican voters support his re-election.”

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll in New Jersey finds Cory Booker (D) crushing Steve Lonegan (R) in their U.S. Senate race, 50% to 22%.

The special election to replace outgoing San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) “will cost roughly $6 million and could force city leaders to tap reserves or make budget cuts in order to pay for it,” the San Diego Union Tribune reports.

“The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to set the special election for Nov. 19 as the city charter gave the panel zero wiggle room to choose a less-costly option. The voter-approved charter requires a special election if a mayor resigns with more than one year left on his term.”

Sen. Mark Pryor’s (D-AR) “political destiny — and potentially that of the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate — may come down to which president Arkansas voters most closely associate with him,” Bloomberg reports.

“Republicans are trying to paint Pryor as a Barack Obama Democrat who backed the health-care legislation and 2009 economic stimulus. Pryor is more comfortable being associated with a different president, fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton.”

That Clinton is making a big speech in Little Rock on Obamacare next month is probably an attempt to be helpful to Pryor.

A new Quinnipiac poll in New York City finds Bill de Blasio (D) surges ahead of the Democratic pack for mayor with 36% of likely voters, followed by Christine Quinn at 21 percent, Bill Thompson at 20%, Anthony Weiner at 8% and John Liu at 6%.

De Blasio is very close to the 40% threshold needed to avoid a runoff.

Adds pollster Maurice Carroll: “If there is a runoff, he clobbers Christine Quinn or William Thompson.”

Congressional and possible mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio (R) told NBC San Diego that a news report accusing him of masturbating in a San Diego City Hall restroom as “disgusting, humiliating and nothing more than a character assassination attempt.”

He even offered up results of a polygraph taken August 26.

Anthony Weiner is “having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide ‘supporters’ for his events,” the New York Post reports.

“Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand… The campaign asked the company to have actors seem ‘like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter.'”

Weiner tweets the story is a hoax.

“Fall’s fiscal fights have lined up in a way that could delay immigration reform until 2014, multiple senior House Republican leadership aides tell Politico, imperiling the effort’s prospects before the midterm elections.”

“Immigration reform isn’t certain to die if it slips into 2014, some in GOP leadership say. But major progress must be made in 2013 as it would be too difficult for the House to chart a course in 2014, an election year.”