US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are delivering their final speeches of the US presidential election campaign in a number of swing states.
The candidates are concentrating on a handful of these states, as national polls show the candidates tied with 48% support each.
Polls show Mr Obama remains slightly ahead in eight out of the nine swing states that will determine the election.
Mr Obama plans to visit three of the swing states today.
Mr Romney will travel to four to plead for support in a fierce White House campaign that focused primarily on the lagging economy but at times turned intensely personal.
The election's outcome will impact a variety of domestic and foreign policy issues, from the looming "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax increases that could kick in at the end of the year to questions about how to handle illegal immigration or the thorny challenge of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The balance of power in Congress will also be at stake in tomorrow's vote.
Mr Obama's Democrats are now expected to narrowly hold their Senate majority and Mr Romney's Republicans are favoured to retain control of the House of Representatives.
In a race where the two candidates and their party allies raised a combined $2bn, the most in US history, both sides have pounded the heavily contested battleground states with an unprecedented barrage of ads.
The close margins in state and national polls suggested the possibility of a cliffhanger that could be decided by which side has the best turnout operation and gets its voters to the polls.
Candidates focus on battleground states
In the final days, both candidates focused on firing up core supporters and wooing the last few undecided voters in battleground states.
Mr Romney reached out to dissatisfied Obama supporters from 2008, calling himself the candidate of change and ridiculing Mr Obama's failure to live up to his campaign promises.
"He promised to do so very much but frankly he fell so very short," Mr Romney said at a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday.
Mr Obama, citing improving economic reports on the pace of hiring, argued in the final stretch that he has made progress in turning around the economy but needed a second White House term to finish the job.
"This is a choice between two different versions of America," Mr Obama said in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr Obama will close his campaign today with a final blitz across Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa - three Midwestern states that, barring surprises elsewhere, would be enough to get him more than the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.
Polls show Mr Obama has slim leads in all three.
His final stop tonight will be in Iowa, the state that propelled him on the path to the White House in 2008 with a victory in its first-in-the nation caucus.
Mr Romney will visit his must-win states of Florida and Virginia - where polls show he is slightly ahead or tied - along with Ohio before concluding in New Hampshire, where he launched his presidential run last year.
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