As I detailed a few weeks ago on this blog, President Obama likes to speak at college campuses. But this may be a first, as he will return to the same campus he spoke at just two weeks ago as he makes a campaign stop Friday in Virginia.

Back on October 5, the President spoke at George Mason University's Center for the Arts; today, Mr. Obama will speak just a couple hundred yards away at the school's Recreation and Athletic Complex.

Earlier this week, the President spoke at Ohio University, as college campus visits have been a staple of his campaign in recent months.

This speech at George Mason, located in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. comes as he faces a stiff challenge from Mitt Romney in the Old Dominion.

Democrats won Virginia in 2008 for the first time since LBJ carried the state in 1964, and backers of the President see the 13 Electoral Votes there as an important part of a winning hand in this year's elections.

A new poll released on Thursday by Public Policy Polling found the President ahead just by one point, 49-48 in Virginia; the poll average according to Real Clear Politics is less than one point in the President's favor.

Mitt Romney made two stops in Virginia on Wednesday, the day after the second debate; Romney was greeted with a large crowd in Leesburg, about thirty miles away in the outer suburbs of Washington.

That raises the question - why return to the same spot for an event twice in two weeks?

Obama won Virginia in 2008 by 232,000 votes; almost half of that advantage was from Fairfax County, where George Mason University is located.

After his remarks at George Mason, the President will go to Camp David later in the day, where he will engage in a final round of debate prep at the White House retreat.

The third Obama-Romney debate is Monday night at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Next week, the Vice President will campaign on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Ohio.  President Obama will join Biden for one event in Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday.