Obama begins in Wisconsin, continues to Ohio and then to Iowa — the state where he began his presidential run in 2008 — before returning to his hometown Chicago, where he hopes a victory party will erupt on Tuesday night.
After Florida, Romney was making a return trip to Virginia for two rallies before heading to kingmaker Ohio one last time. He then returns to where he launched his campaign 18 months ago: New Hampshire.
Campaign aides pointed at early voting advantages in Ohio and Florida as evidence that Obama is close to sealing the deal in his quest to become only the second Democrat since World War II to get a second term.
“Early vote’s gone very well for us. We think we’re closing with strong momentum,” Obama advisor David Plouffe told ABC on Sunday.
The two candidates are tied in national polls but Obama appears to have a stronger claim to the battleground states, and, if the polls are accurate, seems to be in position to win re-election.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post survey showed the race tied, with both Obama and Romney receiving 48-percent support among likely voters.
In a new CNN/ORC poll of likely voters, Obama and Romney stood at 49 percent each.
A survey by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News gave Obama 48 percent support and Romney 47 percent – a statistical dead heat.
And only a Pew poll found that Obama led 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters who already have made up their minds, with four percent saying they remain uncommitted.
Obama is up in 10 of the 12 swing states that will decide the election and Romney in two, according to RealClearPolitics, a website that aggregates all the polling. Eight of the races are within a three percentage point margin.
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