SANFORD, Fla. – Mitt Romney today began his final campaign push with an urgent plea for supporters to turn out “every single vote” at the polls tomorrow so that he can nose ahead President Obama in what is likely to be a photo finish at the polls tomorrow.
“We have one job left and that’s to make sure that everyone who is qualified to vote gets out to vote,” he told a spirited crowed at a rally in an airplane hangar.
“We need every single vote in Florida,” he declared, warning that an Obama victory would bring “another recession.”
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Romney topped Obama by 5 points – 52-47 percent – in a Florida poll released yesterday by the Florida Times Union.
Other polls have showed Romney with a smaller lead and a Public Policy Poling survey put Obama up by 1 point, 50-49 percent.
The same as in national polls, Florida and other key battleground states remain toss ups on the eve of Election Day.
He will try to close the deal with voters, hopscotching across the country one last time through swing states Florida, Virginia, Ohio and New Hampshire.
At Romney’s rally at the airport near Orlando, he hammered home his campaign motto that he’s offering voters “real change,” and he slammed Obama for trying “to convince you that the last four years have been a success.”
“His plan for the next four years is to take all his ideas from his first four years – the stimulus, the tax increase, the borrowing, ObamaCare – and do them all over again.”
“He calls his plan ‘forward.’ I call it forewarned,” Romney said.
“It means $20 trillion in debt. It means continuing crippling unemployment. It means depressed home values, stagnant take-home pay and a devastated military,” he said.
“Unless we change course, we’d be living in another recession as well,” warned Romney.
Romney boasted that his campaign has “gathered strength” in the final stretch of the race.
“This is a campaign about America and the future we are going to leave our children,” he told the rally. “We ask you to stay in it all the way to victory on Tuesday night.”
The answered his plea with huge applause and cheers.
A man called out: “We love you!”
“Your work is making a difference. The people of the world are watching. The people of America are watching,” Romney said. “We can begin a better tomorrow tomorrow and with the help of the people of Florida, that’s exactly what is going to happen.”
smiller@nypost.com