Two Days Out: It’s All About Election Day Turnout

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney poses with children during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney poses with children during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday.


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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney poses with children during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney poses with children during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday.

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Romney Brings Bipartisan Appeal To Final Push

With Election Day just two days away, the presidential campaigns of Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Gov. Mitt Romney are spending the final hours criss-crossing the swing states trying to get their supporters to the polls.

NPR’s Scott Horsley, on the road with Obama, reports that the president has another jam-packed day planned. He’ll visit five states today, including New Hampshire with former President Bill Clinton, following an itinerary that runs well past midnight tonight.

It’s all with a goal of getting his supporters to show up on Tuesday. The message of why to vote for Obama is giving way to urging action.

“If you’ve already early voted, then go grab some friends and neighbors and co-workers and boyfriends and girlfriends,” Obama said. “Now, you should convince them to vote for me before you drag ’em to the polls.”

Romney is scheduled to be in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania today. That last state holds a particularly interesting place on the agenda. It’s not that the evening rally itself is remarkable, but that the Keystone State is in the mix at all.

In recent years Pennsylvania has been a solid performer for Democratic presidential candidates. Although polls have shown Obama leading there, Romney’s campaign insists the state and its 20 electoral votes are up for grabs. In recent weeks, the Romney campaign has spent money on television advertising in Pennsylvania, in part because they have so much of it.

Supporters listen to President Barack Obama speak at a campaign event in Bristow, Va., on Saturday.

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Supporters listen to President Barack Obama speak at a campaign event in Bristow, Va., on Saturday.

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Obama Makes Final Pitch To Get Out The Vote


Article source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/11/04/164279449/now-its-all-about-election-day-turnout?ft=1&f=1001

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