President Barack Obama was barely back in Iowa, ready to drink in the adulation of supporters, when the booze news broke: The White House beer recipe is out.

He opposed efforts to allow time spent in job training or education programs to count toward a work requirement.

Neither side is resting until Nov. 6, Election Day.

President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney are dashing around the country trying to make the most of the break.

LORDSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is drawing attention to the Obama administration's rescue of the auto industry, criticizing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney for opposing a federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. He singles out Romney running mate Paul Ryan for suggesting that President Barack Obama failed to help an idled auto plant in Ryan's Wisconsin hometown.

Biden says that Ryan didn't mention that the plant in Janesville, Wis., closed before Obama took office.

Romney flew to Louisiana to survey storm damage.

Eastwood carried on a kooky, long-winded conversation with an imaginary President Barack Obama, telling him that he failed to deliver on his promises.

Take it on faith, the message was.

Speech appealed to anxiety over stubbornly high unemployment and fears about America's future place in the world.

The VP nominee attacked Obama's policies on Medicare, the economic stimulus and the budget deficit.