Obama Spends Election Day in Chicago While Romney Campaigns
by Matt Vasilogambros, nationaljournal.comNovember 6th 2012 7:47 AM
While Mitt Romney is doing last-minute campaigning in Pennsylvania and Ohio, President Obama has opted to remain in Chicago, conducting several satellite interviews in battleground states.
Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs defended the move on Tuesday, despite the fact that Obama campaigned on Election Day in 2008. Gibbs said a last-minute visit by the president would be too much of a burden for people voting in those states, saying he'll "have a better reach" with satellite interviews.
"We feel like we've got a great opportunity for the president to speak with still undecided voters in those nine battleground states today," Gibbs said on NBC's Today.
Romney is campaigning in Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pa., both critical battleground states.
"We have momentum at the end of this campaign," Romney campaign senior adviser Ed Gillespie said on NBC. "Gov. Romney's positive, uplifting message has resonated I think. … We see incredible intensity on the part of our voters, and we're leaving nothing on the field."
Gibbs called Romney's final push for the Keystone State "desperate," saying the Obama campaign is has the polling advantage.
"It is desperate for them," Gibbs said on Morning Joe. "The reason they went to Pennsylvania, and the reason they're trying to go back to Pennsylvania, is they understand going through Ohio and a number of states throughout the Midwest isn't going to bear fruit for them. So, they're trying to conjure a genie out of a bottle."
Obama is holding his Election Night rally in Chicago, while Romney heads back home to Boston.
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