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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets with local business leaders and farmers during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 8, 2012.

A woman displays four fingers as she chants for four more years while President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising reception in Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, 2012. (AP)

President Barack Obama greets workers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's World Trade Center site, June 14, 2012, in New York.

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney watch him speak during a campaign stop at Sweetie-licious Bakery in DeWitt, Michigan, June 19, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns at Carter Machinery Company, Inc., in Salem, Virginia, June 26, 2012. (AP)

President Barack Obama places an order at The Varsity restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, June 26, 2012. (AP)

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney watch him speak at a campaign stop in front of the Licking County Court House in Newark, Ohio, June 17, 2012

Members of the audience take pictures as President Barack Obama steps to the podium at a fundraising event in Atlanta, Georgia, June 26, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney participates in the Fourth of July Parade in Wolfeboro, New Hampshrie, July 4, 2012.

President Barack Obama speaks at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, July 6, 2012.

President Barack Obama speaks on middle class tax relief at a campaign event at the Kirkwood Community College Recreation Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 10, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hugs supporters after he spoke about the shootings in Colorado at an event in Bow, New Hampshire, July 20, 2012.

President Barack Obama greets the crowd after speaking at the 113th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nevada, July 23, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hosts a small-business roundtable during a campaign stop at Endural LLC in Costa Mesa, California, July 23, 2012.

President Barack Obama visits with military veterans Dean Dilley, left, Mark Peterson, background, right, and Thomas Foeller, right, during a stop at the Gateway Breakfast House in Portland, Oregon, July 24, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pauses as he visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 29, 2012.

اگرچہ قدرت کے رنگ بہار میں نکھر کر سامنے آتے ہیں، مگر خزاں کا بھی اپنا ہی ایک روپ ہے۔

Ned Heitz, from Denver, and a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, lines up to get into a campaign event at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden, Colorado, Aug. 2, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses an overflow crowd at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden, Colorado, Aug. 2, 2012.

President Barack Obama is seen greeting patrons inside Lechonera El Barrio, a local business in Orlando, Florida, Aug. 2, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks with Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey, center, and farm owner Lemar Koethe in Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 8, 2012

President Barack Obama talks to supporters during a campaign rally at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Aug, 9, 2012

Supporters listen to President Barack Obama speak at a campaign event at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Aug. 9, 2012.

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) introduces Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential running mate during a campaign event at the retired battleship USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia, August 11, 2012.