Obama and Romney Crisscross Nation to Collect Swing Votes
By The Associated Press
Nationwide, USA - President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and their running mates are hop scotching from one battleground state to another in a furious bid for last-minute support in a race that remains a statistical dead heat.
They're after a dwindling pool of undecided voters while seeking to energize supporters.
Obama was on a two-day non-stop blitz of eight states, including an appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and an overnight aboard Air Force One.
Also, "I'm going to stop in Chicago to vote," he told a rally in Davenport, Iowa.
"I had to start in Iowa to ask you for your vote ... so we can finish what we started," he said, noting that his win in the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses was "where it all began four years ago."
Around-the-clock campaign trips are not unusual in the final days of a presidential race.
"You fly over, drop in, fly out," Republican Bob Dole joked in his unsuccessful 1996 challenge of President Bill Clinton, which included a 96-hour marathon of airplanes and buses.
Romney also was stepping up his clip, campaigning Wednesday in Reno, Nev., and Cedar Rapids, Iowa before a three-stop swing Thursday through Ohio.
Both campaigns and independent groups are pouring millions of dollars into a final burst of campaign ads in battleground states.
A new ad by the Republican group American Crossroads features actor Clint Eastwood. Last seen at the Republican National Convention speaking to an empty chair, Eastwood now says that a second Obama term would be "a return of the first and our country couldn't survive that."
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Romney Desperation
Last minute efforts by the Romney Campaign are clearly out of desperation but will not stop the truth. People seem are realizing that Mitt Romney and the GOP have based an enormous amount of their election strategy on lies, hatred and deceit. From the 72 million Americans that will be left without any health insurance, whatsoever, by year 2020, under Romney's plan (determined by two independent, non-partisan research studies available to the public), to women and minorities being drastically stripped of their equal rights (because of his refusal to support initiatives like the Lily Ledbetter Act, which enables women to be paid the same as men, provided they do the same work; this was the first act passed by President Obama when he took office) or Hospital Visitation Rights, which allows gay people the same visitation rights as straight people when a loved one is in hospital sick or dying, Americans are seeing Mitt Romney for who he really is. All across our great nation, we as Americans have seen from these many months of campaigning and debates that a Romney/Ryan plan will leave the middle class being burdened with much higher taxes while the wealthiest Americans pay less in tax because "it will help inspire job hiring" - which evidence showed us during the Bush years, does not happen. Romney/Ryan are happy to disclose that they will put "trillions" of additional dollars into the military, which the military has *not* asked for, but are somehow, not able to, even over the course of eighteen months of campaigning and four debates, detail in any real specificity, what taxes will be like under their reign. That is not honest. That is not American. That is not integrity and that is certainly not Christian. Mitt Romney also has the highest disapproval rating, of all time, of any Presidential candidate, ever. Higher than Bush. All Americans must understand this. Much of the entire world hates this guy. We should be proud to be Americans. We need a President who represents all of America and that we can be proud of. We are coming out of one of the most difficult economic times in history in large part because of two wars that we are finally ending. We are finally bringing our brothers and sisters home. We cannot go backward. We must go forward. We are Americans. We will prevail.