Obama Challenges Romney on His Home Turf DURHAM, N.H. - President Obama traveled to Mitt Romney's home territory on Monday to challenge his Republican rival on what he described as a long record of shipping American jobs overseas. During a rally before 1,200 cheering locals in a hot high school gymnasium, Mr. Obama called Mr. Romney's views on outsourcing "not just part of his record, it's part of his overall economic vision." Mr. Obama's aides, smelling blood, say the president will continue to pound the outsourcing theme. On Monday, the president went after rebuttals from the Romney camp that off-shoring - sending jobs overseas - and outsourcing - the contracting out of certain jobs to outside firms - are different. "If you are a worker whose job went overseas, you don't need somebody trying to explain to you the difference between outsourcing and offshoring," Mr. Obama said. The president sharply criticized Mr. Romney and Republicans in Congress, saying they were solely interested in returning to failed economic policies of the past. "We don't need more top-down economics," Mr. Obama said. You need someone who's going to wake up every single day and fight for American jobs and investments here in the United States. Mr. Obama's aides have been highlighting Mr. Romney's record in private equity, along with reports that the firm he once ran invested in companies described as leaders in outsourcing jobs to China. The Romney campaign says the reports are misleading. Mr. Obama acknowledged on Monday that the upcoming election will be close. During his speech here, he made no mention of the Supreme Court ruling expected this week on his signature achievement as president: the health care overhaul law. After New Hampshire, Mr. Obama headed to Boston for a fund-raiser. He will now have attended more than 100 such events, according to Mark Knoller, a White House correspondent for CBS News who has been tracking Mr. Obama's travels to raise cash for the Democrats. On Tuesday, the president will attend fund-raisers in Atlanta and Miami.