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Obama cancels his campaign tour in the crucial battleground/swing states that will decide the election, but the AP photo to the story is Romney and the Oak Ridge Boys, who are very much loved in the battleground/swing states, on the campaign stump.

Obama cancels Florida campaign trip, returns to DC

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stands on stage with The Oak Ridge Boys as he campaigns at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Marion County Fairgrounds, in Marion, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo - Charles Dharapak)

JULIE PACE

From Associated Press

October 29, 2012 8:00 AM EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama is canceling a planned campaign appearance in Florida and returning to Washington to oversee the federal government's response to the ever-threatening Hurricane Sandy.

With the massive East Coast storm playing havoc with people's work and school at the beginning of the new week, Obama press secretary Jay Carney says the president is returning to the capital Monday to, quote, "monitor the preparations for and early response" to the hurricane.

Four critical election states are affected by the storm — North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and New Hampshire.

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