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WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – After three days of focusing on superstorm Sandy, President Barack Obama will return to the campaign trail on Thursday with a more “affirmative” message to win over undecided voters in the final days of the race for the White House.
With polls showing a tight contest between the Democratic incumbent and Republican challenger Mitt Romney before Tuesday’s election, Obama will use trips to political battleground states to make a closing appeal for a second term.
That argument will touch on points he has made for months about the choice between competing Republican and Democratic visions, Obama advisers said, but it will put more weight on Obama’s ideas for the future and could resurrect some of the hopeful themes that helped him win election in 2008.
“You’re going to see him lift up … the vision of what we’re fighting for,” senior campaign strategist David Axelrod said in an interview last week before the storm, adding the construction of Obama’s “stump” speech would alter slightly in the final days.
“We’ll still address what the choice is. You have to address the choice. But I think it’ll tilt toward the affirmative, toward the future.”
