WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney on Friday is launching a five-day bus tour through six critical swing states, taking his campaign to small towns in a return to the retail politicking that has been cast aside in recent weeks for a schedule of ferocious fund-raising.

Romney is planning to start the “Every Town Counts” tour in Stratham, N.H., where he announced his presidential campaign last year. The tour will continue through Pennsylvania on Saturday and Ohio on Sunday. He will be in Wisconsin and Iowa on June 18, before closing the tour in his native Michigan on June 19.