FINAL PUSH Candidates Make Final Push Hours Before Polls Open
Reported by: Kallie Cart
Web Producer: Kallie Cart
Also Contributing: Elizabeth Noreika
Reported: Nov. 5, 2012 7:02 PM EST
Updated: Nov. 5, 2012 7:15 PM EST
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Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
Candidates were out in force on Monday to make a final appeal to voters prior to polls opening on Tuesday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney joined other GOP hopefuls at The Grill restaurant on Charleston's West Side for a political rally, he also spent the day making other campaign stops throughout the state. Maloney was joined by several other candidates including Representative Shelley Moore Capito who's vying for her seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives against Democrat Howard Swint.
Maloney is once again facing off against Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. Tomblin beat Maloney by 7,500 votes in the special election last October.
Tomblin was also making campaign stops throughout the state on Monday.
Democratic supporters gathered at Senator Joe Manchin's headquarters in Charleston to rally ahead of election day. Manchin leads Republican John Raese in the polls. He's vying for his first full term in the Senate.
Polls open statewide at 6:30am Tuesday and close at 7:30pm.
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