With just over a week before the election, both President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have scaled back campaigning as Hurricane Sandy approaches. The two campaigns have canceled a combined 17 events and suspended fundraising emails in states that lie in the storm’s path. On Saturday, President Obama rallied supporters in New Hampshire, where he criticized Romney’s record as governor of neighboring Massachusetts.

President Obama: “During Governor Romney’s campaign for governor down there, he promised the same thing he’s promising now, said he’d fight for jobs and middle-class families. But once he took office, he pushed through a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited 278 of the wealthiest families in the state, and then he raised taxes and fees on middle-class families to the tune of $750 million. Does that sound familiar to you?”

Appearing meanwhile in Ohio, Romney rallied supporters by invoking the mantra of a fictional football team depicted in the television drama, “Friday Night Lights.”

Mitt Romney: “There’s a fictional football team that used to be on TV, and as the team would go out of their locker room, often facing a daunting odds, they’d touch a sign that said, 'Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.’ You’ve seen it. And that’s how I feel about Ohio. You guys — you’ve got clear eyes and full hearts, and on November 6th, we can’t lose with your help. We’re taking back America.”