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In the final weekend of the 2010 campaign, President Obama will stump on behalf of candidates in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio as he attempts to motivate Democrats to get to the polls and mitigate likely Republican gains.

Earlier this week, freshman Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes, who represents the 4th District in the southwestern portion of the state, touted Obama's impending visit to the working-class city of Bridgeport. Himes is locked in a tight race against Republican challenger Dan Debicella and could benefit if Obama can successfully fire up Democratic voters who ousted longtime Republican Congressman Chris Shays in 2008.

The Connecticut Senate race appears to be of slightly lesser concern to Democrats, as Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has held a sustained lead over Republican former WWE CEO Linda McMahon. Still, the White House is taking no chances in that race either, as evidenced by First Lady Michelle Obama's appearance with Blumenthal in Stamford earlier this week.

Obama is also slated to stump in Philadelphia on the Saturday before Election Day, as Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak has pulled into a dead heat with Republican Pat Toomey in recent polls.

If recent appearances on the campaign stump are an indication of what is to come in the campaign's final days, Obama will continue to strike a pugnacious tone against the Republican agenda.

"They want to roll back health reform so insurance companies can deny you coverage when you're sick, or drop your coverage," Obama told a crowd at a rally on behalf of Washington Senator Patty Murray in Seattle on Thursday. "They want to roll back Wall Street reform so taxpayers are once again on the hook for Wall Street bailouts."

On the Sunday before Election Day, Obama will head to his hometown of Chicago, where Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk remain in a neck-and-neck contest for the president's old Senate seat in Illinois. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will also hold a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, later that day before returning to Washington on Nov. 1.

Ohio's incumbent Governor Ted Strickland remains in a tight race against Republican John Kasich. Strickland and state Democrats have pushed the idea that holding the Ohio governorship will be critical to Obama's re-election hopes in 2012.

Strickland has embraced the president and his agenda far more wholeheartedly than many other Democrats have, in the hopes that doing so will generate large turnout in the state's big cities and college towns.

Obama has visited Ohio as president more frequently than he has any other state.