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Obama wraps up campaign, heads to Chicago

(CBS News) President Obama made his final campaign stops on Monday in Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa before heading home to Chicago to watch the election returns on Tuesday.

Reporting from Obama's hometown of Chicago, CBS News' Nancy Cordes said his campaign speech veered toward the personal on Monday night as he talked about opening up his first campaign office in Des Moines, Iowa in 2007.

With the first lady looking on, he told the crowd of 20,000 supporters, "the key is just to stay focused on what it is you're doing," calling on them to help propel him to victory like Iowa voters did four years ago.

"After all the months of campaigning, after all the rallies, after the millions of dollars in ads, it all comes down to you," Obama said before adding, "It's out of my hands now. It's in yours." 

First lady Michelle Obama also spoke on behalf of her husband in Des Moines, telling voters, "We have seen an honest man who knows the facts and always gives it to us straight."

For more from Nancy Cordes on the Obama campaign, watch the video above.

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