FOXNews.com: Candidates Spar as Race Tightens

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Candidates Spar as Race Tightens Oct 21st 2012, 17:51 The Obama and Romney campaigns attacked and parried Sunday over whose candidate has a more clear-cut plan to move America forward but agreed on at least one issue – the race is razor close. Top campaign advisers and surrogates made their cases ahead of the final presidential debate Monday and with roughly two weeks remaining before Election Day. They also argued as a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney deadlocked at 47 percent. Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said she agrees with top Romney adviser Kevin Madden that the race is very close, but dismissed his campaign's latest attack that the president has yet to articulate a plan for the next four years. "Mitt Romney ought to come out [on] the trail with us and hear what the president has to say," Cutter said on CBS' "Face the Nation." Madden, sitting beside Cutter in Boca Raton, Fla., site of the final debate, said Americans -- and Floridians in particular -- are concerned about the economy, particularly about the federal debt and gas prices. He also suggested the campaign feels Romney has sufficiently laid out his plan to fix the economy. "We feel very good about where we are positioned right now," he said. Top Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said the president has a "very specific agenda to move forward while Romney wants to return to failed economic policies of the past. "We've tried it," Axelrod said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "It doesn't work." He also acknowledged the race was "very close," but suggests Obama is ahead in battleground states and that public polls are "all over the map." Obama and Romney are off the campaign trail this weekend to prepare for the debate, which will focus on foreign policy. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said on CBS that "the president has no plan for the next four years."

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