As Election Day draws closer, the men vying for Florida's U.S. Senate seat are crossing the state, hoping to gain support from still undecided voters.

Wednesday, Republican Rep. Connie Mack IV had several different stops scheduled on his "Freedom Tour."

Mack stopped in Sarasota and then at the Bradenton REC office Wednesday afternoon in Manatee County.

While speaking to dozens of supporters, Mack told the group this is the most important election in history, one he said he and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney must win. If elected, Mack said taking care of the budget is one of his biggest priorities.

"I'm the only one in this race that has a plan to balance budget in five years by cutting one percent or one penny out of every federal dollar,” he said.

Other big issues for Mack is repealing Obama care, focusing on foreign affairs by defunding the United Nations, getting America away from being dependent on foreign oil, and lowering taxes, issues he said his rival Sen. Bill Nelson isn't taking care of.

Mack's supporters said they stand behind him 100 percent.

"The last four years have been very poor for our economy I would like to see Mack take over,” said Ed Walp.

"America is looking for good leadership, I don't like the direction we're going and we need a change,” said Pamela Sue Jefferies.

Following the Bradenton event, Mack headed to a meet-and-greet event in Palm Harbor.

Mack is in a heated race against Sen. Nelson. A recent Florida Decides Exclusive Poll had the incumbent Democrat in the lead, but Mack has vowed to fight hard, right through Election Day.

Nelson was just as busy on the campaign trail Wednesday. He started the day off in Gainesville around 11 a.m., and spoke at Stetson University, in DeLand, Wednesday afternoon.

For a college student, there are two common concerns: keeping your grades up and keeping your debt low.

"I don’t want to be one of those people that ‘hey, good for you, you graduated but you have $250 to $300,000 worth of debt,’" said Stetson University student Jeff Sayer.

Sayer works three jobs trying to keep that from happening. He also receives Pell Grant funding, which is money that you don’t have to pay back.

"In my particular situation, my father passed away my junior year in high school and my mom is retired," said Sayer.

He said trying to send a student to college on a retirement paycheck just wasn't feasible for his mom.

Senator Bill Nelson was at Stetson University, campaigning on a promise to work to increase the amount of Pell Grants and regular student loans.

"That's why we lowered the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent to help get us out of this recession," said Nelson.

Senator Nelson was quick to criticize his opponent Connie Mack's "Penny plan."

Senator Nelson said the Congressman's plan to cut the deficit would ultimately gut education by $145 million, citing a report from a non-partisan research arm of cCngress.

Senator Nelson says education is the key to a better America.

"Our ability to compete in the global market place is our ability to have an educated population so that we can out invent, out discover and therefore compete with the rest of the world," said Nelson.

Nelson was looking to shore up some of the college-age vote that turned out in record numbers in 2008.

Senator Nelson also encouraged students to vote early. Early voting in Florida begins Saturday.

From Stetson, Nelson headed to another campaign event in Daytona Beach.