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Voters in Pennsylvania are poised Tuesday to either make Republican Tom Corbett the first governor to lose reelection in the modern era, or hand him a historic comeback victory against Democrat Tom Wolf.

New Jersey voters will choose a U.S. senator and decide the Philadelphia area's hottest congressional contest.

Those are the region's marquee races in a midterm election that, nationwide, could shift the balance of power in the Senate and reflect a growing dissatisfaction with officeholders from the statehouse to the White House.

In Pennsylvania, that dissatisfaction has surfaced in polls that give Wolf, a York businessman in his first run for office, an average lead of 11 percentage points, though Corbett, a former two-term state attorney general, has been picking up ground.

On Monday, Corbett flew around the state, asking a cheering crowd of about 100 at a stop in Lancaster to let him continue his low-tax, trimmed-government, pro-business agenda. "This race boils down to one word: Taxes," the governor said.

Wolf, in a blue United Steelworkers windbreaker as he exhorted a labor audience in Pittsburgh to vote, said, "The polls are looking pretty good, but the polls don't matter."

One incumbent who leads in polls is Democrat Cory A. Booker of New Jersey, seeking his first full term in the Senate against Republican challenger Jeff Bell. Garden State voters also will decide who fills two U.S. House vacancies.

Little change is likely in Pennsylvania's House delegation. The GOP is expected to keep 13 seats - Democrats have five - and is also favored to keep ruling both legislative chambers in Harrisburg.

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