PHILADELPHIA — The Republican primary for Pennsylvania governor is coming down to the wire.
In a nine-person race, no candidate is expected to get a majority of the vote in the May 17 election. But recent polling, both public surveys and campaigns' internal polls, as well as interviews with GOP insiders point to a clear front-runner: state Sen. Doug Mastriano.
Everyone else is playing catch-up, and while some Republicans are warning that Mastriano could cost the party up and down the ballot in the general election, his opponents haven't coalesced behind a single alternative. Mastriano's leading rivals are former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, former Delaware County Councilman Dave White, and former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain.
