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               Post Storm, Obama, Romney Alter Campaigning Plans

   by VOA News

   With one week until election day, U.S. President Barack Obama and his
   Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are balancing how to make their
   final pitches to voters while tens of millions of people along the
   country's east coast deal with a massive storm.
   Both candidates have canceled their planned Tuesday appearances,
   instead focusing their messages on storm victims and calling for
   donations to relief organizations.
   'The storm's impact includes several political battleground states that
   analysts say are key to the outcome of the November 6 election,
   including Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and
   Ohio.
   In some parts of Virginia and North Carolina early voting sites have
   been closed as the storm moves through, and sites in Washington remain
   closed Tuesday.
   Obama returned to the White House Monday to oversee the government's
   response to the storm. Romney's aides say he may visit areas impacted
   by the storm later this week.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
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