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With polls round the corner and buoyed up by opinion polls, Obama entered Republican territory with the triumphal announcement, "We have a righteous wind at our back." He campaigned Saturday in Nevada, Colorado and Missouri, all states that voted for Bush in 2004. He told his audience in a radio address, "If your give me your vote on Tuesday, we won't just win this election - together, we will change this country and change the world."

Obama was on a three-city tour of Ohio, a crucial state for both the Presidential candidates. He was also heading on a battleground blitz of Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. He would then turn to Chicago to make his closing statement. Obama is hammering McCain over the US economic crisis and portraying him as the copycat of President Bush.

John McCain, speaking is Virginia said "We are a few points down but we're coming back." He followed his two-day bus trip around Ohio and Pennsylvania and was stepping up the pace with his midnight rally in Florida. He is attacking his rival's patriotism as he tries to turn Tuesday into a referendum on Obama's readiness to serve as commandar-in chief as the US military are engaged in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Vice President Dich Cheney endorsed McCain and said "American's cannot afford the high tax liberalism of Barack Obama and Joe Biden."

With two days to go, the presidential campaign has narrowed down to battleground states that have been reliably Republican in recent elections or in the case of Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina, that have not voted for a Democratic candidate in decades.