Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)

Governor

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Taxes Tour.”

A few miles north at the Lancaster Airport, Corbett flew in to greet supporters and deliver a speech. One person there, however, was not a supporter: “Lebanon” Levi Stoltzfus, star of the “Amish Mafia” TV show on the Discovery Channel, had come to ask Corbett why he signed a statement in August criticizin­g the show as “bigoted” and calling for it to be shut down. Security officers discourage­d Stoltzfus from approachin­g Corbett. Stoltzfus is not registered to vote, he said, otherwise he would support Wolf.

Corbett flew to events in every corner of Pennsylvan­ia on Monday, and both candidates were ending the day with rallies in Pittsburgh.

Overall campaign spending has broken the $70 million mark and smashed Pennsylvan­ia’s previous campaign spending record. Despite that, pollsters expect fewer than 50 percent of registered voters will cast ballots.

Many eyes will be on Philadelph­ia, Pennsylvan­ia’s liberal bastion and home to more than 1 mil- lion of the state’s 8.3 million voters.

Philadelph­ia Democratic Party Chairman Bob Brady said Monday he hopes to get a 350,000- to 400,000-vote victory for Wolf in the city to more than offset any edge Corbett will get from more conservati­ve voters in the rest of Pennsylvan­ia. Philadelph­ia’s four suburban counties — Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery — with 1.6 million voters also will be a key bellwether.

In several interviews Monday in Lancaster, registered voters demonstrat­ed both apathy and dislike toward Corbett.

Kathy Ingram, a Democrat, said she does not like “what’s his name” before she remembered Corbett’s name. Beverly Pfeiffer, a Republican, said she is pretty sure she will vote for Corbett but more out of fear that Wolf will raise taxes than an attraction to Corbett.

Meanwhile, both campaigns desperatel­y sought to gain an advantage in the final hours before the polls open.

The Republican Party has sent f liers to households warning that Wolf has a radical agenda to take away guns, which is not true. Meanwhile, a Wolf campaign radio ad in Philadelph­ia falsely warned that Corbett favors forcing women seeking an abortion to undergo an internal ultrasound.

Voters also will decide Tuesday who should occupy Pennsylvan­ia’s 18 seats in the U.S. House of Representa­tives for the next two years. All but two incumbents are seeking re-election and no one expects the Republican­s’ 13-seat majority to change much, if at all, thanks largely to a GOPcrafted redistrict­ing plan that took effect in 2012.

The two open seats, both in southeaste­rn Pennsylvan­ia and both contested, are being vacated by sixterm Republican Jim Gerlach in the 6th District and five-term Democrat Allyson Schwartz in the 13th District. Three-term Republican Mike Fitzgerald faces a challenge from political newcomer Kevin Strouse, a Democrat, in the 8th District in suburban Philadelph­ia.

In the state Legislatur­e, all 203 House seats and half of the 50 Senate seats are up for grabs. Republican­s are expecting to pad their majorities in both chambers.

 ?? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ?? Pennsylvan­ia Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who is seeking a second term, poses for a selfie with supporters during a campaign rally Monday, at the American Helicopter Museum in West Goshen.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pennsylvan­ia Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who is seeking a second term, poses for a selfie with supporters during a campaign rally Monday, at the American Helicopter Museum in West Goshen.

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