After months of speeches, dozens of diner visits, hundreds of thousands of
commercials and billions of dollars spent by the campaigns and outside groups,
the race is still too close to call.
Mitt Romney promised Americans that under his leadership the country would
rediscover its greatness, after languishing under Barack Obama for four years.
Under a slogan of “Real Change from Day One” – a deliberate dig at the
president’s winning mantra from 2008 - the Republican contender said that his
rival’s “big government” policies had failed.
“If there is anybody who fears the American dream is fading away, I have a
message for you: America is about to come roaring back,” he said at his first
rally of the day in New Hampshire, one of the closest swing states.
“President Obama is offering excuses, I am offering a plan. He is asking
Americans to settle [for what they have got]. But Americans don’t settle, we
dream, we aspire and we achieve great things.”
Democrats in Ohio and other swing states are acutely aware that with Mr
Romney breathing down the president’s neck, getting out the vote on the day will
be crucial.
Morris Reid, a former official in Bill Clinton’s White House who hails from
the state, said: “It will come down to turnout and ground game. If we get
African Americans to turn out we can get an extra two to three points in Ohio.”
A misleading TV ad by the Romney campaign which claimed local Chrysler plants
were preparing to ship jobs to China has angered labour voters and women with
blue collar husbands, he said. That could make the crucial difference at this
late stage, by encouraging extra numbers to show up at polling stations on
Tuesday.
“I believe we will win, but this is close, very close. It makes me nervous. I
have never been so nervous about a race,” said Mr Reid.
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FRANKFURT—The European Central Bank is looking into whether it is treating Spanish government Treasury bills too generously when commercial banks present them as collateral for loans, potentially reviving concerns over the safety of the central bank's €3 trillion ($3.85 trillion) balance sheet.
An ECB spokeswoman confirmed the collateral examination Sunday after Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported, based on its own research, that the ECB hasn't followed its ...
Europe's Bank Reviews Collateral
The European Central Bank is looking into whether it is treating Spanish government Treasury bills too generously when commercial banks present them as collateral for loans, potentially reviving concerns over the safety of the central bank's €3 trillion ($3.85 trillion) balance sheet.
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