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US President Barack Obama (L) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney finish their debate at the University of Denver/AFP

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Obama to be ‘passionate’ and ‘strong’ at debate

The Romney campaign countered with its own video, claiming growing momentum for the Republican ticket following the first debate.

“The Romney-Ryan plan to create 12 million new jobs to help the middle class is resonating in battleground states across the country as crowds swell, the polls tighten and volunteers flood into (Republican) offices,” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in the video.

National polls show Romney and Obama locked in a tie, but Romney can claim undeniable momentum in the nine battleground states that will decide who will live in the White House after next January.

A new Quinnipiac University poll Tuesday showed the Republican drawing within four points of Obama in Pennsylvania, a state which many analysts believe the president had already locked down.

Obama has spent many months and millions of dollars arguing Mitt Romney does not care about the middle class. On Tuesday, he faces pressure to prove it, before an audience of voters in the town hall-style debate.

CNN’s Candy Crowley will moderate the showdown, with questions posed by about 80 undecided likely voters selected by polling group Gallup.

Some analysts have speculated that the more collegial setting could hamper Obama’s efforts to challenge Romney more aggressively than in Denver.

But the president’s camp thinks Obama comes across as more likeable and at ease with everyday Americans than Romney, a wealthy former venture capitalist.

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