Per the AP, “President Barack Obama is turning his political sights on New Hampshire, the small but strategically important general election battleground where his campaign hopes to shore up voter support… Obama is expected to promote his efforts to boost domestic energy production in a speech Thursday in Nashua, N.H. The trip marks the president’s second visit to the state in about three months. Vice President Joe Biden has been a frequent visitor to New Hampshire, and first lady Michelle Obama held a conference call with campaign volunteers in the state Wednesday.”

“President Obama is increasingly playing up his working-class roots in a bid to appeal to blue-collar voters, particularly in the swing-state-heavy Midwest,” The Hill writes. “Republicans say the casting call is a stretch for the Harvard-educated Obama, who was once a community organizer but is now a best-selling author and millionaire squarely in the ‘1 percent’ category, a point he frequently acknowledges.”

In fact, Because of Obama’s delay of approval of the Keystone Pipeline project, Sen. Orrin Hatch said this on the floor about the president of the United States, per The Hill: "President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for the hipster fedora and a double skim latte. The president is putting the preferred lifestyle policies of wealthy urbanites ahead of the needs of blue-collar and union workers and middle-class Americans.” (So, just asking, but Hatch knows what a “double-skim latte” is?)

IOWA: Crossroads is on air hitting Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA), who is in a toss-up race with Rep. Tom Latham after redistricting. “Crossroads GPS bought $77,000 worth of airtime for the new spot to run across the Des Moines and Omaha television markets through March 7, according to a spokesman for the group,” Roll Call reports. “It’s clear the Iowa race has become a top target for Crossroads GPS this cycle. The spot is part of more than $370,000 Crossroads has spent on issue advertisements on this House race since late October.”

MAINE: “Maine Democratic Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud have begun the process of building Senate campaigns, even though neither has come to a final decision on whether to run to succeed retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (R),” Roll Call writes. “Sources in both camps maintain that the looming March 15 deadline to file forced the two Representatives to move ahead with gathering petition signatures as they still mull a Senate run. While there have been reports that national Democrats are pushing for the two Members to decide between themselves which of them will run for Senate, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the two will square off in the Democratic primary, according to a Maine Democrat.”

MASSACHUSETTS: “A second poll is showing Republican US Senator Scott Brown leading Democrat Elizabeth Warren by 9 to 10 points, a sign of potential concern for Warren after months of polling showed a closer race,” the Boston Globe writes. “The poll of 456 voters, conducted by Opinion Dynamics of Cambridge, shows Brown leading Warren 52 percent to 42 percent in a theoretical match-up.” And: “The poll also showed former Governor Mitt Romney is unpopular in the state, with 45 percent saying they view him favorably and 52 percent viewing him unfavorably. In a theoretical match-up with President Obama, he would lose 53 percent to 35 percent, according to the poll.”

NEW JERSEY: “A new Quinnipiac poll in New Jersey shows support for same-sex marriage climbing to a new high, 57% to 37%,” Political Wire writes.

OHIO: The Boston Globe: “Ohio looms as most important of Super Tuesday states…” And Joe the Plumber was at a Romney event in Ohio yesterday. He was at a Santorum event earlier in the week and says he hasn’t endorsed anyone.

Similarly, the New York Daily News writes, “All eyes are now on Ohio in the Republican race for the White House.”

The Hill: “Ohio is next battlefield for the GOP.”