President Obama and Mitt Romney used up what was left of their hoarse voices and jetted to their most crucial campaign targets yesterday in a last-ditch effort to inspire and cajole supporters in a race that is going right down to the wire when voters cast their ballots today. Romney announced plans to make a last-minute trip to Ohio and Pittsburgh today in a two-pronged attack to try to tip Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania into his column after a series of tight polls there and pry away the Buckeye State, which Obama backers are calling his “firewall.” Obama held rallies in battlegrounds Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa, and brought out his highest-wattage celebrity double-team —...
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