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Obama Makes Final Campaign Effort Sunday For Midterm Elections

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(Photo : REUTERS/Larry Downing) Crowd members listen as U.S. President Barack Obama talks at a campaign event for the re-election of Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy while at Central High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, November 2, 2014.

United States President Barack Obama made his final campaign on Sunday as he stopped by Connecticut and Pennsylvania to push for fellow Democrats running for their respective posts in the upcoming midterm elections.

Obama is all out in the campaign effort, wanting to avoid the setbacks that Democrats suffered from back in 2010. Obama has been on the road for days, making appearances in states where he is not highly favored.

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On Sunday, he was in Connecticut where Democratic Governor Dan Malloy is hoping for reelection, although polls have been showing a very tight race with Republican opponent Tom Foley. According to RealClearPolitics, the polls show that Malloy was only 0.7 points ahead of Foley.

Malloy spoke in front of the crowd and he pressed it was great to have Obama join them. He also talked about Obama's support for the community after the school shootings in Newtown back in 2012. Malloy then talked about the state gun control legislation, standing firm that he will never sign any bill that repeals gun control.

Obama then took the stage but onlookers interrupted him as he was questioned about the immigration policies of his government. However, he countered that the threat of having millions of immigrants deported will not affect the midterm elections.

He pressed that the upcoming elections was important because if the Republicans rule the Senate, their representatives will be blocking legislation on immigration reform, noting that they have a very different vision as opposed to what the Democrats believe in.

The president then urged the Democrats to be in attendance at voting booths during the elections.

He also appeared at a rally for Democrat Tom Wolf in Philadelphia who has a lead of 11 points against his opponent Republican Governor Tom Corbett.

Different polls have been showing that the Republicans have a very high chance of controlling the Senate and strengthening the House, which they already control.

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