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• PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- His path to victory narrowing, Mitt Romney is looking to Pennsylvania to help slow President Barack Obama's momentum ahead of a high-stakes meeting on the debate stage next week.
• The Republican presidential nominee was to campaign Friday in the Philadelphia area, first courting donors at a high-dollar fundraiser and then meeting voters at a midday rally.
• Fresh off a promise to spend more time in the swing states that matter most, Romney will pass much of the day in a state that has not supported a Republican presidential candidate in nearly a quarter-century. His campaign is not running any

television ads in Pennsylvania, and aides privately concede that Obama has a significant advantage just 40 days before Election Day.
• They suggest that Romney's visit -- his first to the state in more than two months -- is largely designed to raise the money needed to narrow Obama's edge in more competitive states. After raising $5 million at a Washington event Thursday, Romney is expected to generate more than $1 million in Philadelphia and an additional $7 million at a Boston fundraiser later Friday.
• "We're going to have to make the right choice on Nov. 6, and you're going to make that happen," Romney told cheering donors in Washington.
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• RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack Obama's field office here every day. Their mission: Fan out across the city seeking new voters in this rapidly growing state.
• "Are you registered to vote at your current address?" asks Douglas Johnston, a volunteer wooing voters outside the county courthouse. "Do you know about early voting?"
• The effort, it seems, has borne fruit -- to the tune of more than 250,000 new registered voters in North Carolina since April 2011, according to Obama's team. That's

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