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Obama riding 'righteous wind’ before polls

A1T, Henderson
Democrat Barack Obama promised a "new politics for a new time and said he bad a "righteous wind" at his back as he basked in hefty poll leads just three days before Tuesday's histone election.
But Obama's Republican White House rival John McCain fired off a lacerating critique of the Democratic nominee’s national security credentials, saying he was unfit to navigate a dangerous world with untold lives at stake.
Meanwhile, after a mildly embarrassing revelation, Obama's campaign returned a financial donation from a Kenyan aunt who lives in Boston after questions were raised over her immigration status.
The rivals blitzed key battleground states on Saturday, in what has been Republican territory in recent elections, reflecting Obama s edge in most swing states and in national polls as the race careens to a close.
"Don't believe for a second that this election is over," Obama told 15,000 people in the balmy heat of the western battleground state of Nevada as his bid to become America's first black president reaches its climax.
"But I know this, Nevada, the
time for change has come. We have a righteous wind at our back," he said.
The Illinois senator, 47, once again tried to shackle McCain to President George W. Bush's legacy and warned his rival would resort to "slash and burn" tactics in the final hours.
But he said that the politics of division would not pull America out of its current financial crisis.
"We can steer ourselves out of this crisis - with a new politics for a new time."
McCain, seeking to make Tuesday s election a referendum on whether his rival was fit to lead in a perilous age. raised sharp questions about Obama's readiness to be commander-in-chief.
Obama had shown some "impressive qualities." McCain. 72, said at a rally in Newport News, Virginia, but he argued his foe was the wrong choice for a dangerous world where "millions of lives" were at stake.
"The question is whether this is a man who has what it takes to protect America from Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, the prospect of a nucleararmed Iran, and other grave threats in the world." McCain said.
"And he has given you no reason to answer in the affirmative."
McCain also said Obama's economic plans would do little to stave off the slowdown after US growth lurched into negative territory in the last quarter to set the stage for a full-blown recession.
He said Obama's comments to Ohio tradesman Samuel Wurzelbacher alias "Joe the Plumber" in a campaign stop --that it was good to "spread the wealth around" -- revealed his true intent.
"We've learned more about Senator Obama’s real goals for our country in the last two weeks than we did in the last two years, and that's only because Joe the Plumber asked him a question," McCain said.
Latest daily tracking surveys suggested that Obama was in pole position heading into election day.
Rasmussen had the national race at 51 to '46 percent in favor of the Democrat. Gallup had Obama gaining momentum and leading 52 percent to 42 percent in two polls designed to reflect different scenarios of likely voters.
Obama headed from Nevada to Colorado, another Republican state in 2004 which polls show trending in his direction, before an evening rally in the midwestern bellwether of Missouri.