Obama, Romney Make the Final Push, Polls Show Deadlocked Race

As the Election Day closes in, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney took long campaign journeys into the night making their final cases to as many voters as possible on the last day of a historic race for the White House.

Just hours to go for elections, Romney stopped at crucial battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Virginia defining what change really means to him

. "I know how to change the course this country is on," Romney told a crowd in the suburban Philadelphia town of Morrisville. "It's something I'm going to do as president of the United States. Two more days and we can get to work on rebuilding our country."

Earlier in the day, the GOP nominee stopped in Des Moines, Iowa and then in Ohio.

"He promised to do so very much but frankly he fell so very short," Romney said in his Ohio speech ridiculing President Obama's failure to live up to his campaign promises.

Carrying the vigorous Presidential race campaign in all its spirits on the final hours, Obama addressed the crowds at New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio and Colorado on Sunday.

"I know I look a little bit older, but I've got a lot of fight left in me," Obama told some 14,000 people in Concord, N.H. "We have come too far to turn back now. We have come too far to let our hearts grow faint. It's time to keep pushing forward." "As long as I'm president, I will work with anybody of any party to move this country forward," Obama said. "That's not bipartisanship. That's certainly not change. That is surrender to the same status quo that has squeezed middle-class families for way too long."

Obama will visit three swing states - Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa - on Monday while Romney will close his campaign visiting two of his must-win states - Florida and Virginia.

Meanwhile, latest polls have indicated that Obama and Romney are essentially deadlocked ahead of Tuesday's election. The Pittsburgh Tribune showed both candidates locked at 47 percent in the final week. A Politico/George Washington University survey has both the candidates tied at 48 percent while an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll put Obama at 48 percent and Romney at 47 percent.

The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Obama slightly leading with 49 percent with Romney at 48 percent while a Times-Union/InsiderAdvantage poll said likely/registered voters favored Romney 52 percent to Barack Obama's 47 percent.