Mitt Romney
Republican Mitt Romney will bring his swing-state bus tour to a trio of small towns in Pennsylvania on Saturday, including the borough of Cornwall in Lebanon County.
The party's nominee-in-waiting is scheduled to make a late-afternoon appearance at the Cornwall Iron Furnace, a historic landmark a few miles north of Lancaster County.
The event is to be a large public rally and begins at 4:45 p.m., the chairman of Lebanon County's Republican Party told the local newspaper there. Doors to the event open at 3:45 p.m.
Romney is expected to campaign in Carbon and Bucks counties earlier in the day, according to published reports.
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is expected to join Romney on at least part of his swing through Pennsylvania.
The bus tour, which the campaign has called "Believe In America: Every Town Counts," begins in New Hampshire today, continues through Pennsylvania on Saturday, then moves into Ohio on Sunday, Wisconsin and Iowa on Monday and Michigan on Tuesday.
Republicans insist Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes are up for grabs even though every major poll shows Democratic President Barack Obama leading the former Massachusetts governor.
The most recent Franklin & Marshall College Poll, released two weeks ago, found Obama up by 12 percentage points.
