Gov. Chet Culver and Sen. Tom Harkin visited the M-Shop on Thursday afternoon to discuss their plans for the final days of the election race.

Despite the fact Culver is trailing Branstad in fundraising, and having a late entrance in the campaign, he and Harkin aren’t worried about winning the election.

“They say that campaigns in the final days are all about the momentum. We have so much of it that we’re kind of at an advantage,” Culver said.

Culver said the votes are coming in, and he and Harkin have plans to crisscross the state in the remaining days until Nov. 2 and hope to win on a record margin.

Culver is optimistic for the remaining days of the election and said he doesn’t think Iowans will vote Republican because of Branstad’s stance on important issues like education, the Iowa Constitution and government spending.

“He’s got nowhere to go but down,” Culver said. “He’s got nowhere to go but back. You think he’s going to inspire people to go vote for him in the final days of this campaign when he wants to amend the Constitution in a way that would be discriminatory and wrong? Is that the kind of person who we want to lead our state?”

Culver pointed out Branstad’s changing position on his promise to cut state government spending by 15 percent. Culver claimed this cut would be something like $800 million and the only step Branstad has made toward this is a $90 million cut in education.

“The choice is clear, the job we have to do between now and Nov. 2 … is to make sure that everyone understands the choice as clear as you do,” Culver said. “Everyone doesn’t know where Terry Branstad stands on these issues that I’ve talked about; in fact, he changes his position so often that it’s hard to keep up with him sometimes.”