And yet a valuable character witness, former president Bill Clinton, will headline four rallies for Obama on Monday in Pennsylvania, to counter Romney’s late push there.
Democrats said they were confident of Obama’s small but steady lead in key swing states, but acknowledged that everything now depends on getting the vote out.
“Ultimately, it’s up to you. You have the power,” Obama said at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire. “You will be shaping the decisions for this country for decades to come right now, in the next two days.”
Obama flew to New Hampshire to reprise a buddy act from the night before with Clinton, which saw the popular former president place his economic legacy on the younger leader’s shoulders.
On a gruelling swing, the Democratic incumbent also travelled to Florida, Ohio, and Colorado before touching down in Wisconsin in the early hours Monday.
Exhaustion began to show on both candidates this past weekend as they keep up frenetic paces straight into Monday, when each performs another multi-state criss-cross that would make any frequent flyer proud.
Obama begins in Wisconsin, continues to Ohio and then to Iowa, the state where Obama began his presidential run in 2008, before returning to his home town Chicago.
Romney starts the day in the biggest swing state of all, Florida. He then flies to Virginia and kingmaker Ohio one last time before returning to where his campaign began 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.
The two candidates are effectively tied in national polls of the popular vote 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.
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