President Obama and Mitt Romney battled for votes in the crucial swing state of Ohio Thursday night as new polls suggested the Republican challenger was gaining ground in the race.
Romney said he was the candidate of "hope and change" — snatching the battle cry that Obama used to win the White House four years ago.
Obama used saltier language in a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, calling Romney a "bull*****er."
The President also intensified his pressure on Romney to break ties with a Republican Senate candidate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is "something God intended."
"I don't think any male politicians should be making health-care decisions for women,'' Obama said.
New polls suggested that Romney has erased the lead Obama had enjoyed since the Democratic convention early last month. Romney led 50%-47% in a new ABC/Washington Post poll - a statistical tie, given the poll's margin of error, but the first time Romney reached 50% in that survey. Romney also led 47%-45% in an Associated Press poll.
Still, both campaigns said the race would likely come down to Ohio, where polls showed Obama has a slender lead.
Ohio's importance was underscored by the visits of both candidates Thursday.
Obama struck an optimistic tone in Cleveland, as he wrapped up a two-day, non-stop, cross-country blitz of battleground states.
Earlier in the day, he criticized the remarks about abortion and rape by the GOP candidate for Senate in Indiana, Richard Mourdock.
Obama aides went further, launching a video online to showcase Romney's endorsement of Mourdock and accusing Romney of kowtowing to his party's extreme elements.
Romney brushed aside questions on the controversy.
Aides said that Romney disagreed with Mourdock's remarks but would not withdraw his Mourdock endorsement.
In Cincinnati, Romney said a dozen times that the country needed "big change."
"The Obama campaign is slipping because he's talking about smaller and smaller things despite the fact that America has such huge challenges," Romney said. "We want real change. We want big change."
Team Romney boasted that it had raised $111 million in the first 17 days of October, $20 million more than Obama's haul.
The frenetic fund-raising pace has both sides poised to amass a war chest of $1 billion by Election Day.
Obama won the endorsement of retired Gen. Colin Powell. A Republican, Powell had backed Obama in 2008; both Obama and Romney vied for his support this year.
Meanwhile, an interview Obama gave to Rolling Stone magazine, released Thursday, caused a stir.
Asked, jokingly, about his popularity among children and lowering the voting age, Obama said, "Kids have good instincts. They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bull*****er, I can tell.' "
In speeches, Obama accuses Romney of shifting positions.
Romney aide Amanda Henneberg said it's Obama who has betrayed voters' trust.
With Thomas M. DeFrank
jlemire@nydailynews.com
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