Mitt Romney fights back against criticism of his presidential campaign That's not the campaign, that was me - right? I've got a very effective campaign, it's doing a very good job, but not everything I say is elegant," he said, adding: "I want to make it very clear: I want to help 100 per cent of the American people." The 60 Minutes edition will also feature a sit-down interview with President Obama, who was due to address a rally last night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday showed Mr Obama leading 51 per cent to Mr Romney's 45 per cent. A Quinnipiac poll in August had placed Mr Obama only two points ahead of his Republican challenger in the swing state. Mr Romney - fresh from releasing preliminary papers addressing long-demanded details of his own taxpaying record - headed for San Diego and Los Angeles, California, yesterday (Sat) for two fundraising events that he hopes will help him recover his financial lead over Mr Obama. For the first time last month, the president and the Democratic party raised more than Mr Romney and the Republicans, tallying $114 million to the opposition's $111.6 million. He will be in Colorado on Sunday then spend three days on the campaign trial in Ohio with vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. In a speech in New Hampshire on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a withering retort to Romney's assertions about 47 per cent of people being "dependent on the government." Those dependent people he refers to they include the 650,000 troops still left in Afghanistan who, because they are in combat, being shot at, injured, they do not have to pay any federal income tax on their salary. I don't call that dependency, I call that ingratitude to not recognise they are a part of that 47 per cent. In his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday morning, Obama - who has rejected the opportunity to meet with world leaders attending next week's UN General Assembly meeting in New York, in favour of campaign activities including an appearance on the daytime television chat show "The View" - criticised members of Congress for having left legislative business undone in Washington to focus on their own re-election campaigns. "Some members of Congress are more worried about their jobs and their pay cheques this campaign season than they are about yours," he told listeners after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives beat a retreat on Friday morning, followed by the Democrat-controlled Senate on Saturday, in what was the earliest pre-election shutdown since 1960. "When they skipped town, members of Congress left a whole bunch of proposals sitting on the table - actions that would create jobs, boost our economy and strengthen middle-class security," he complained.