Wilson, Feinstein Go Down to Wire : Election: The two wrap things up with a few more potshots at one another. Campaigning in Texas, President Bush urges people to ‘get out there and vote.’

Pete Wilson and Dianne Feinstein ended California’s most expensive governor’s race today with a final round of campaigning across the state, urging a big voter turnout and taking a few last-minute potshots at each other.

Nationally, President Bush urged voters today to “get out there and vote,” at the end of a midterm election campaign marked by mixed messages and squabbling among his advisers.

Feinstein, buoyed by a new Steve Teichner poll showing her leading the Republican senator by 1 percentage point--43% to 42%--greeted supporters at Santa Monica Airport smiling and waving.

“For eight years we believe the Republicans have taken us in the wrong direction,” Feinstein said.

Comedian Chevy Chase, who contributed $50,000 to Feinstein’s campaign, implying that her victory would propel the Democrats toward electing a President in 1992, told the crowd, “Tomorrow is the first step toward throwing George Bush out of the White House.”

Feinstein, the Democratic former San Francisco mayor, began the day in Wilson’s home town of San Diego, where, addressing about 300 supporters, she said:

“Pete Wilson is a protector of the rich, and we want to protect the working people.”

Wilson, who has been leading slightly in statewide polls, appeared jaunty at Sacramento’s Republican Party campaign headquarters, where he predicted victory.

“We are going to win and we are going to make history, not just for this decade. . . . Let’s go get ‘em,” he said in an appearance with other GOP candidates for statewide office.

Commenting to reporters, Wilson scoffed at Feinstein’s weekend comparison of herself to Harry S. Truman, in which she told crowds during a whistle stop tour of the Central Valley that she had “the spirit and determination” of the former President.

“She has been sounding much more like (Michael S.) Dukakis,” Wilson said, comparing Feinstein to the Massachusetts governor defeated by Bush in 1988.

“You can try to sound like Truman, but if your record is Dukakis, it doesn’t sell,” he said.

After her morning in Santa Monica, Feinstein, traveling with Chairman Ron Brown of the Democratic National Committee and Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy, her running mate, was headed for campaign stops in San Luis Obispo and UC Davis before heading home to San Francisco, where she will spend Election Day.

Campaigning in his adoptive home state of Texas, Bush sought to emphasize positive election-eve themes, acting on a recommendation from some advisers to look more “presidential.”

Later in the day, the President planned to sign the $492-billion deficit-reduction plan approved by Congress last week, resurrecting an issue that caused him much political grief within his own party over $140 billion in new taxes.