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On Thursday, Obama was so not much starting his day as continuing his last one. After spending the night on Air Force One, he's campaigning in Tampa, Fla., Richmond, Va., and Cleveland before heading back to the White House. In the midst of the 40-hour dash across six battleground states and eight states overall, he planned to do exactly what he is imploring millions of people to do for him: vote. In his hometown of Chicago, Obama was scheduled to be the first president to vote early in person. By making a special trip just to cast his vote, Obama sought to build awareness about the early voting option, which is a vital part of both campaigns' political operations. "I can't tell you who I'm voting for," Obama told a crowd of thousands gathered in chilly Denver on Wednesday. "It's a secret ballot." He noted that his wife, Michelle, had already voted by absentee ballot and she promised she went for him. Taken together, the nonstop travels were the busiest single stretch of Obama's long and combative run for a second term. He is selling a more specific second-term agenda these days and warning that Romney is untrustworthy, but increasingly, Obama's goal is to ensure his supporters get to the polls. Romney was waking up in Cincinnati to kick off a daylong swing through three Ohio towns, sharpening his focus on a state that's critical to his hopes of winning the White House. The Republican's advisers say their internal data has him tied to win the state's 18 electoral college votes, but public polling has shown Obama with a slim lead. Romney is working to cast Obama's campaign as focused on small issues while the Republican ticket is focused on fixing the nation's serious fiscal problems. "His campaign seems to be smaller and smaller by the day," Romney told more than 2,000 people in an airplane hangar off the tarmac in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, his campaign plane looming behind him. "Attacking me is not an agenda for the future."
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