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Jobless Numbers Play in Campaign's Race to the Finish

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The Presidential election is just four days away and both campaigns are putting all their efforts in the battleground states.

The candidates are targeting undecided voters who may be influenced by Friday's unemployment report.

The President started his campaign day in Franklin County, Ohio with some better than expected unemployment numbers.

President Obama told supporters, "This morning we learned that companies hired more workers in October than in the past 8 months."

Employers added 171,000 new jobs in October - about 45,000 more than many analysts anticipated.  And the labor department says hiring over the summer was better than previously thought.

Despite the improvement, the President is still facing a high unemployment rate.  Because more Americans are trying to find work, it ticked up from 7.8 to 7.9%

That's the highest number an incumbent President has faced on Election Day since Franklin Roosevelt.

Mitt Romney says he'll do a better job if voters put him in the White House.  The Republican nominee is spending the last few days of the campaign making that case in the battleground states.  Romney is in Iowa and Ohio today trying to pick up the few remaining undecided voters.

The Republican candidate, at a rally Friday, said, "we ask you to stay with us all the way to the finish line because we are going to win on Tuesday night."

The race is tied in 9 swing states. The latest polls also show the race tightening in Pennsylvania - a state once thought to be easily in the President's win column.

The Romney campaign is now making a late push to take Pennsylvania.  Romney will visit the state on Sunday.  

 The Obama campaign calls the GOP's effort in Pennsylvania an act of desperation.  However, the Democrats do plan to increase their spending on political ads in the state.