-Mitt Romney will begin his day in West Allis, Wis., with a 9:55 a.m. appearance, followed by back-to-back Ohio rallies. The first will be in Etna at 2:45 p.m. and the second, starting at 7:30 p.m. in West Chester, will also serve as the launch event for a last all-out push in which the campaign is saying it will dispatch 100 elected officials and campaign surrogates to carry the Romney gospel to a handful of swing states in the campaign's waning days.

-Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will be joining for the launch event, naturally. Before that he will begin his day with a 10:30 a.m. appearance in Montrose, Colorado followed by a 3:15 p.m. jaunt through Cedar Falls, Iowa.

-The campaign has dubbed that 100-person push the "Romney-Ryan Real Recovery tour," and that's a theme we're sure to hear now that the latest job numbers show a slight uptick in the unemployment rate (while the total number of jobs added by the economy in October was far larger than what economists had forecast, at 171,000.) Look for Romney to hold the 7.9 percent number aloft as evidence that Barack Obama has presided over a weak, faltering economic recovery.

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