Describing the cuts as a gun-to-your-head approach originally proposed by the White House and passed

CNN obtained a memo on Thursday circulated by Beth Myers, an adviser to Republican presidential nominee cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket Mitt Romney, that outlines several reasons why President Barack Obama may win the first of three scheduled encounters next Wednesday in Denver.
Obama advisers threw out the first pitch in the expectations game on Sunday, with Robert cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket Gibbs saying that Romney is primed for success following a string of debates during the rigorous campaign for the Republican nomination.
Mitt Romney I think has an advantage, because he s been through 20 of these debates in the primaries over the last year, Gibbs said on Fox News. He even bragged that he was declared the winner in 16 of those debates. So I think, in that sense, having been through this much more recently than President Obama, I think he starts with an advantage.
Based on the campaign he s run so far, it s clear that President cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket Obama will use his ample rhetorical gifts and debating experience to one end: attacking Mitt Romney, Myers wrote. Since he won t and can t talk about his record, he ll talk about Mitt Romney.
Romney and Obama courted veterans cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket on Thursday in Virginia, appearing in communities that illustrate the state s heavy military cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket presence and its reliance on defense spending for jobs. Obama spoke near Virginia Beach while Romney rallied supporters in Springfield.
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Virginia would be hit hard if steep proposed budget cuts aimed at reducing federal red ink take hold next year absent a deal by Congress to forestall or soften them. The state could lose more than 130,000 jobs if a spending deal is not reached, according to an industry study by George Mason University in July.
Describing the cuts as a gun-to-your-head approach originally proposed by the White House and passed by Congress, the Republican nominee told a Veterans for Romney event that the impact on Virginia would be devastating.
Romney said he would review excess military spending to make the Defense Department more efficient and add 100,000 active duty service members. He also pledged to use the money saved in the defense budget to care for veterans.
Obama appeared near Virginia Beach, home of the Naval Air Station cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket Oceana. He lost the city by one point in 2008 largely due to the support for John McCain, a former Navy pilot, famed war prisoner, and staunch cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket supporter of military issues in Congress.
But Obama campaign aides believe they have a larger opening this election with veterans in light of the president s more muscular than expected cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket foreign policy and Romney s widely noted omission of service-member related issues in his convention address.
A string of recent polls suggest the president is maintaining a narrow lead over Romney and the Obama campaign is confident wins in both Ohio and Virginia will essentially foreclose any path Romney has to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
The latest, a Suffolk University/WWBT-Richmond survey, shows Obama with a 46%-44% edge among likely voters in Virginia. Two point margin is within the poll s sampling error. Seven percent cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket are undecided.
Voters in Iowa had their first chance to cast ballots in the presidential cheap inexpensive travel airline ticket election Thursday, marking the first battleground state to begin in-person early voting. Idaho, South Dakota, New Jersey, Vermont and Maine all began in-person early voting earlier this month.
Separately, Democratic fundraisers got a boost with news that billionaire financier George Soros would commit $1 million to a super PAC backing Obama s reelection bid, Priorities USA Action. In May, Soros donated $1 million to the left-leaning super PAC American Bridge.