FOXNews.com: Romney begins final campaign blitz with censure, reminder: 'Vote for love of country'

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Romney begins final campaign blitz with censure, reminder: 'Vote for love of country' Nov 3rd 2012, 14:47 Mitt Romney repeated his criticism Saturday of President Obama's suggestion to vote out of "revenge," telling Americans to instead vote out of "love of country." Romney's comments at an outdoor rally in New Hampshire began a critical and exhaustive day of campaigning for both presidential campaigns. The Republican presidential nominee promised the bipartisanship in Washington that he thinks Obama failed to create, and he asked supporters to help him get the votes of the remaining undecided voters. "Most of you have already decided who you are going to vote for," Romney said at a Newington, N.H., airport. "Spend some time in the next three days with your neighbors and say, 'Let's talk this through.'" Romney will also visit the key battleground states of Iowa and Colorado on Saturday, and then visit Pennsylvania on Sunday. The president is scheduled to campaign Saturday in Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. He began the day with an early-morning meeting at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters to discuss relief efforts for the victims of superstorm Sandy. During a speech Friday in Ohio, Obama talked about Republican opposition to a Clinton administration plan to increase taxes, mentioned Romney's name, and then said, "Voting is the best revenge." With just three days remaining before Election Day, most polls show the race too close to call and that it will likely be decided in the battleground states. "This is the most partisan president in history," Romney said in what are now his closing arguments. "He hasn't been able to deliver on the promises he made." Romney also restated his five-point plan to improve the U.S. economy and said his successful record in business and as Massachusetts governor proves he is up for the task. "Yesterday the president said something that surprised a lot a people," Romney said near the end of the rally. "He said voting is the best revenge. Vote for revenge? Vote  for love of country." Romney on Friday described himself as the candidate of "real change," reiterating a slogan he's been hitting for days.   "Candidate Obama promised change, but he couldn't deliver it," Romney said in Wisconsin, before heading to Ohio, the veritable center of the presidential campaign universe.  The Obama campaign called the claim laughable. "We know what change looks like, and what the governor's offering ain't it," Obama said on the stump in Ohio Friday morning.  As both candidates reprise the "change" theme from 2008 in the final days of the race, their schedules offered clues to where they hope to tilt the electoral-vote count come Election Day. On the final weekend before the vote, the campaigns were planning a packed schedule of rallies through a host of battleground states.  The play for Pennsylvania, which has voted Democrat in recent presidential races, is significant. Paul Ryan is also set to campaign there on Saturday. Winning Pennsylvania would allow Romney to potentially lose Ohio and still have a path to the 270 electoral votes it takes to win. But the polls still show the Keystone State leaning in Obama's favor, and Democrats have described the Pennsylvania appeal as a sign of desperation.  The latest RealClearPolitics average of national polls has Obama up by less than 1 percentage point. Obama is leading in Ohio and Wisconsin, while Romney is leading in Virginia and Florida.  The candidates seemed to be settling into a rhythm with their closing appeal to voters, as the October jobs report released Friday morning gave the campaigns their final piece of economic evidence to weave into the stump speeches. That report was a mixed bag, showing the jobless rate ticking up to 7.9 percent -- and employers adding 171,000 jobs, while the number of unemployed increased by roughly the same amount.  Romney described the numbers as the picture of a "virtual standstill" on the economy.  "Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession," Romney said Friday.  Romney argued that he can bring "real change" by bringing in a pro-business administration.  "Every entrepreneur, every small-business person, every job creator will know that for the first time in four years, the government of the United States likes business and loves the jobs and higher wages businesses can bring," he said.  Romney said that the job market would "still be stagnant" at the outset, "but I won't waste any time complaining about my predecessor."  Obama, though, who spent the bulk of the past week dealing with the preparation for and response to monster storm Sandy, said Romney is just "repackaging" the policies of the George W. Bush administration and selling them as change.  "We have made real progress," Obama told Ohio voters.  The president said, as he has before, that Romney is offering an agenda that favors the biggest banks and the wealthiest Americans, and would serve to "rubber stamp" what he described as the "Tea Party agenda" in Congress.

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