White House reveals travel plans for Obama for final weekend--including joint rally w/ VP in OHIO

and I was wrong he is going back to PA to Philly, not Pittsburgh--so there goes that prediction!

President Barack Obama will hit Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois and Ohio in a final election weekend blitz, Democrats announced this morning. The president will help incumbent Democrats in top Senate and gubernatorial races before heading back to Washington to wait for election returns Monday Nov. 1 and on Election Day.

Next Saturday Oct. 30 -- as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert hold rallies on the National Mall -- Obama will stump for Democrats in Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Conn., and Chicago. Sunday Oct. 31, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will hold a rally in Cleveland.

The idea is to help fire up the Democratic base in hopes of high turnout, and also to shore up support in key battleground states that will make the difference in 2012 during Obama's reelection campaign.

Obama was most recently in Seattle (see Kyle Trygstad's report from the ground here) campaigning for Sen. Patty Murray. He'll stump today in Nevada for Majority Leader Harry Reid and in Los Angeles for Sen. Barbara Boxer this weekend.

As we reported, Obama was leaving the weekend open to help Democrats who are most in need.

First Lady Michelle Obama will hold rallies in Philadelphia and Las Vegas on Monday, Nov. 1.

The president is an absentee voter in Illinois. Aides said he voted for the Democratic ticket.

On Friday Nov. 5, Obama heads to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan for a multi-day trip.

Former President Bill Clinton this weekend will be helping Tarryl Clark (D) in Minnesota's 6th district as she runs an uphill race against the left's favorite target Rep. Michele Bachmann (R).

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/10/white-house-plans-campaign-bli.html

my only ? is why CT--I thought things were going pretty well there according to recent polls, but I guess they want don't want to take anything for granted.