CLEVELAND/CHICAGO, Nov 6 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama
and Republican challenger Mitt Romney battled down to the wire
on Tuesday, mounting a last-minute Election Day drive to get
their supporters to the polls in a handful of states that will
decide the winner in a neck-and-neck race for the White House.

Capping a long and bitter presidential campaign, Americans
cast their votes at polling stations across the country. At
least 120 million people were expected to render judgment on
whether to give Obama a second term or replace him with Romney.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Republican rival Mitt Romney on Tuesday for running a hard-fought race for the White House and expressed confidence he would win re-election during a stop at a local campaign office to thank volunteers.

“I … want to say to Governor Romney congratulations on a spirited campaign. I know that his supporters are just as engaged and just as enthusiastic and working just as hard today,” Obama said as volunteers made phone calls encouraging supporters to get to the polls.

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – An emotional President Barack Obama ended his final campaign on Monday in Iowa, the place that launched his first White House bid and that could hold the key to his political future.

After two days of nearly round-the-clock travel to the battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Colorado, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, Obama ended his tour in Des Moines with a speech that harkened back to his 2008 campaign.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov 5 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and
Republican challenger Mitt Romney engaged in frantic
get-out-the-vote efforts and made final pleas to voters in a
sprint through battleground states that will determine who wins
their agonizingly close White House race on Tuesday.

Both candidates sought to generate strong turnout from
supporters and to sway independent voters to their side in the
last hours of a race that polls showed was deadlocked
nationally. Obama had a slight lead in the eight or nine
battleground states that will decide the race on Tuesday.

CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sprinted to an unpredictable finish in the last 48 hours of a very close race for the White House on Sunday, trying to turn out supporters and woo undecided voters in a handful of toss-up states.

Obama and Romney began cross-country trips on the next-to-last day of a race that polls show is deadlocked nationally, although the president appeared to have a slight edge in the swing states that will decide who captures the 270 electoral votes needed to win on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain essentially tied in the race for the White House with razor thin margins in four key swing states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Saturday.

Three days before the November 6 election, both men are neck and neck in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Colorado, the poll showed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain essentially tied in the race for the White House with razor thin margins in four key swing states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Saturday.

Three days before the November 6 election, both men are neck and neck in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Colorado, the poll showed.

HILLIARD, Ohio, Nov 2 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and
Republican Mitt Romney made late pitches in the political
battlegrounds of the upper Midwest on Friday, a region likely to
decide the winner in next week’s closely fought election for the
White House.

In dueling campaign appearances in the swing states of Ohio
and Wisconsin, the two contenders battled over the economy on a
day when the government reported the jobless rate ticked up to
7.9 percent in October but that employers stepped up their
hiring.

HILLIARD, Ohio (Reuters) – President Barack Obama blasted Republican rival Mitt Romney on Friday for running an ad that falsely suggested Jeep was moving production to China, accusing his opponent of stretching the truth to scare voters in the final days of the campaign.

Romney told a crowd last week in Defiance, Ohio, that he had read a news article that said Chrysler’s Jeep brand was considering moving “all production to China.”