Mitt Romney and President Obama raced out Saturday in a final-weekend campaign blitz that hits five key battleground states, with each candidate feverishly trying to win votes from the remaining undecided voters with each making a final argument about how he could best lead America.

With three days remaining before Election Day, both candidates urged supporters to help in get-out-the-vote efforts – asking them to make phone calls or knock on doors in a race now too close to call and which will likely be decided in the battleground states.

The campaigning began with Romney at an outdoor rally on cold New Hampshire morning.

The Republican presidential promised the bipartisanship in Washington that he thinks Obama failed to create, and he asked supporters to help him get the votes of the remaining undecided voters.

"Most of you have already decided who you are going to vote for," Romney said at a Newington, N.H., airport. "Spend some time in the next three days with your neighbors and say, 'Let's talk this through.' "

His comments began a critical and exhaustive day of campaigning for both candidates.

Obama was in Ohio on Saturday for a second straight day.

"I'll work with any party to make this country move forward," he said. "If you want to break the gridlock of Congress vote for me."

He took a jab at what he sees as the Romney plan for a White House – Capitol Hill compromises – funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, health care and student financial aid.

"I'm not going to have that," the president said inside a school gymnasium in Mentor, Ohio. "That's not bipartisanship."

"Knock on some doors with me, make some calls for me," the president said in closing.

The president is also scheduled to campaign Saturday in Iowa, Virginia and Wisconsin. He began the day with an early-morning meeting at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters to discuss relief efforts for the victims of superstorm Sandy.

Romney will also visit the key battleground states of Iowa and Colorado on Saturday, and then visit Pennsylvania on Sunday.

In Romney's New Hampshire stop, he began by again criticizing Obama's suggestion to vote out of "revenge," telling Americans to instead vote out of "love of country."

Obama made the remark Friday when talked about Republican opposition to a Clinton administration plan to increase taxes, mentioned Romney's name, then saying, "Voting is the best revenge."

On Saturday, Obama repeated the story about the Clinton plan but dropped the revenge line.

Most polls show the race too close to call and that it will likely be decided in the battleground states.

"This is the most partisan president in history," Romney said Saturday  in what are now his closing arguments. "He hasn't been able to deliver on the promises he made."

Romney also restated his five-point plan to improve the U.S. economy and said his successful record in business and as Massachusetts governor proves he is up for the task.

Romney on Friday described himself as the candidate of "real change," reiterating a slogan he's been hitting for days.  

"Candidate Obama promised change, but he couldn't deliver it," Romney said in Wisconsin, before heading to Ohio, the veritable center of the presidential campaign universe. 

The Obama campaign called the claim laughable. "We know what change looks like, and what the governor's offering ain't it," Obama said on the stump in Ohio Friday morning. 

As both candidates reprise the "change" theme from 2008 in the final days of the race, their schedules offered clues to where they hope to tilt the electoral-vote count come Election Day. On the final weekend before the vote, the campaigns were planning a packed schedule of rallies through a host of battleground states. 

The play for Pennsylvania, which has voted Democrat in recent presidential races, is significant. Paul Ryan is also set to campaign there on Saturday. Winning Pennsylvania would allow Romney to potentially lose Ohio and still have a path to the 270 electoral votes it takes to win. But the polls still show the Keystone State leaning in Obama's favor, and Democrats have described the Pennsylvania appeal as a sign of desperation. 

The latest RealClearPolitics average of national polls has Obama up by less than 1 percentage point. Obama is leading in Ohio and Wisconsin, while Romney is leading in Virginia and Florida. 

The candidates seemed to be settling into a rhythm with their closing appeal to voters, as the October jobs report released Friday morning gave the campaigns their final piece of economic evidence to weave into the stump speeches. That report was a mixed bag, showing the jobless rate ticking up to 7.9 percent -- and employers adding 171,000 jobs, while the number of unemployed increased by roughly the same amount. 

Romney described the numbers as the picture of a "virtual standstill" on the economy. 

"Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession," Romney said Friday. 

Romney argued that he can bring "real change" by bringing in a pro-business administration. 

"Every entrepreneur, every small-business person, every job creator will know that for the first time in four years, the government of the United States likes business and loves the jobs and higher wages businesses can bring," he said. 

Romney said that the job market would "still be stagnant" at the outset, "but I won't waste any time complaining about my predecessor." 

Obama, though, who spent the bulk of the past week dealing with the preparation for and response to monster storm Sandy, said Romney is just "repackaging" the policies of the George W. Bush administration and selling them as change. 

"We have made real progress," Obama told Ohio voters. 

The president said, as he has before, that Romney is offering an agenda that favors the biggest banks and the wealthiest Americans, and would serve to "rubber stamp" what he described as the "Tea Party agenda" in Congress.