UPDATE: Details Released on Vice-President's Visit to Beloit Friday

The Vice-President will then travel to Superior, WI in a sign of just how important the Badger state is to the President's re-election bid.

A recent Rasmussen poll showed the President and Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a dead heat in Wisconsin, although other recent polls have indicated the President maintains a slight edge with a week to go in the campaign. Both CNN and the website RealClearPolitics.com list Wisconsin as a 'toss-up,' one of eight states including Iowa which pundits say will decide the election. Both websites predict that if Obama can win the toss-up states of Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa, he will be re-elected. Romney is listed as trailing in the Electoral College vote count by both CNN and RealClearPolitics, and would require a more complex combination of battleground state victories to win the election. National polls indicate the popular vote is a virtual tie.

President Obama was scheduled to appear in Green Bay Tuesday, but cancelled so he could monitor federal emergency needs from hurricane Sandy.

Beloit lies just outside Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Congressman Paul Ryan's recently redrawn 1st Congressional District, and falls within the 2nd Congressional District, where current incumbant Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin is locked in a tight race for U.S. Senate against former Governor and Republican Tommy Thompson. It is unknown if Baldwin will join Biden on his campaign stop.