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I think you may be jumping the gun. Obama is trying to force Romney into Fl and out of the north. I expect that come Oct 15 or 20th, every swing state will be carpet-bombed by Romney who reportedly has way more money than Obama to retaliate with. Romney bought the nomination with a barrage of highly targeted negative ads. I expect he is going to go back to that playbook when Obama won't have the time or money to respond in everyone of the swing states as soon as the last debate is over.
I don't think that's a good strategy if he does it. Carpet bombed ads work really well in the primaries for quickly shifting public opinion when the candidates are ideologically close. In the general it's harder to sway the public, and I think waiting until late October is too late. He'd be better served to strengthen his current advertising barrage in states like Iowa, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado where he's close, than to try and divide his attacks into less likely states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nevada.