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| Dawn breaks, Barack Obama |
| Dawn breaks, Barack Obama still hunting for votes
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-October-2012
14:14:5 PM |
| US President Barack Obama set out to block Mitt Romney's road to the White House on Thursday on the second day of a non-stop 40 hour blitz of states that will decide the election.
Mr Obama landed in balmy Florida before dawn after a flight across three time zones, following a late night rally in Las Vegas and a trip into the bowels of Sin City's plush Bellagio casino hotel to rally union workers.
The president was appearing in Florida, Virginia and Ohio, and if he can win just one of those three key swing states, and pick up a few smaller battlegrounds, he could all but assure himself of a second four year term.
"I have come to Florida today to ask for your vote," Mr Obama told a loud crowd of 8,500 people who gathered in Tampa despite the early hour.
"We have come too far to turn back now," said Mr Obama, his voice raspy with fatigue.
Averages of recent polls have shown Republican nominee Mr Romney may be up slightly in Florida and Virginia, which Mr Obama, in 2008, was the first Democrat to win since 1964, but the president appears to have a consistent edge in Ohio.
Republican Mr Romney knows the stakes in Ohio, no Republican has been elected president without the rust belt battleground and was spending the whole day in the state
Twelve days from the election on November 6, Mr Obama got a symbolic boost in the neck-and-neck race, securing the endorsement of former Republican secretary of state Colin Powell.
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