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Mitt Returning to Philly to Get Them on His Side
Hailey Hurowitz
12/1/12
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    In a late campaign push to change the map, Mitt Romney will travel to Pennsylvania on Sunday in the hopes he can get that Democratic-leaning state to his side.  A Romney campaign will stop in the Philadelphia area on Sunday afternoon.  The Pennsylvania even falls into the Romney campaign's newly adopted strategy of expanding the battleground map in the final week of the race.  Top strategists to the GOP nominee targeted Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota this week for potential gains, pointing to polls in the states that show Romney gaining on the President.  The Obama campaign quickly said the Pennsylvania trip is "an act of desperation."  The Romney campaign quickly fired back, accusing the president's re-election advisers of reacting from a "defensive crouch."

         In the final days before the 2008 election, then GOP nominee John McCain and his running partner, governor Sarah Palin made campaign stops in Pennsylvania with similar hopes but it didn't really workout.  Romney campaign officials referred to recent comments made by former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell who said Democrats could let down their guards in the state, opening up the possibility of a "startling upset."  Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, a Romney replacement, predicted the GOP nominee would win the state in an interview on Fox News Thursday.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/01/romney-tries-to-put-pa-in-play/?hpt=po_c2