Who Won the Third Debate? Riding High, President Obama's Campaign Releases 'New Economic Patriotism' Book

After a lackluster performance in the first presidential debate, and a second debate that left many wanting more, President Obama looks to have come out on top in the third and final presidential debate of the 2012 race, according to two separate instant polls released by CNN and CBS News.

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CBS News says its poll of 521 undecided voters indicates the president won the night by a wide margin of 53 percent to 23 percent margin over Republican candidate Governor Mitt Romney, with a further 24 percent saying they thought it was a tie. CBS said the margin of error in its poll was +/- 4 percentage points.

CNN's results reveal a much closer win for President Obama, suggesting the President won by eight percentage points among the debate watchers it polled, 48 percent to 40 percent, with a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points. CNN noted the Obama win was within the margin of error. CNN did not mention how many respondents were in its poll.

Riding high on those comforting polling numbers, President Obama's campaign released a scrupulous book outlining what a second Obama term would look like, "The New Economic Patriotism: "A Plan for Jobs & Middle Class Security." A glossy, 20-page repackaging of the plans he has announced on subjects from energy to education.

The campaign says 3.5 million copies are being printed, with 1.5 million of those being sent to field offices.

Read the book: Cover and "Economy" -- "Manufacturing" and "Energy" -- "Small Business and Education" -- "Tax Plan" and "Healthcare" -- "Retirement" and "Moving America Forward" -- Back Cover

"We're launching a full-scale, multiplatform organizational effort," a campaign official said, "that will include direct mail, advertisements and distribution at field offices to ensure every voter knows what a second term of an Obama presidency would mean for middle-class Americans.

"The president, vice president and all of our surrogates will hold up the plan at events and ask our massive grass-roots network to do everything they can to share the plan with their family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and others to reach every undecided voter in the remaining days of this election and ensure they understand the choice between continuing to move America forward and going back to the same policies that devastated our economy and punished the middle class."

In coordination with the book's release the Obama campaign is beginning a final media blitz in seven battleground states with a new ad entitled, "Determination," which echoes many of the book's sentiments. The ad will air in Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.

"There's just no quit in America, and you're seeing that right now. Over 5 million new jobs. Exports up 41 percent. Home values - rising. Our auto industry - back. And our heroes - are coming home," says Obama in the new ad. "We're not there yet - but we've made REAL progress, and the last thing we should do is turn back now."

He continues, "Here's my plan for the next four years: Making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting American-made energy; reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where we can, and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. And ending the war in Afghanistan, so we can do some nation-building here at home. That's the right path."

"It's an honor to be your President...and I'm asking for your vote...so together, we can keep moving America forward."

The next three days will be some of the busiest on the campaign trail for Obama. After spending the night at the White House, the President is off to Davenport on Oct. 24 to begin an "America Forward!" tour, which the campaign describes as "a two-day, around-the-clock campaign blitz." He continues to Denver, then holds a late-night event in Las Vegas. He flies overnight to Tampa for a Thursday morning rally, then on to a tarmac event in Richmond.

After that, he goes home to Chicago to become the first sitting president to cast an early vote in person. Then, it's back to Ohio for an evening event in Cleveland.

"As the President crisscrosses the nation," the campaign said in its announcement, "he will spend time on Air Force One calling undecided voters, rallying National Team Leaders and volunteers and continuously engaging with Americans across the country about the choice in this election."

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