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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Top Stories Full Coverage Most Popular Photos Search Search: Obama and McCain hurtle into final 48 hours AFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago CLEVELAND, Ohio (AFP) - - White House front-runner Barack Obama Sunday hurtled into the last 48 hours of his epic campaign against Republican John McCain pledging to remake America as he presented a loving tableau of his youthful family. On the home stretch before Tuesday's election, the Democrat bidding to be America's first black president appeared before 80,000 supporters here with his wife Michelle and their two daughters aged seven and 10. The would-be first family were introduced by a rousing set from fabled rocker Bruce Springsteen, who brought many in the vast crowd to tears with "The Rising," which is played just before Obama takes the stage at all his rallies. "A rising is coming," Obama said after Springsteen exclaimed to deafening cheers: "I want my country back, I want my dream back, I want my America back!" McCain , following his own two-day bus odyssey around rust-belt Ohio, was also stepping up the pace with his first midnight rally of the campaign, in Florida, following events in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. "We are two days away from changing America, and it's going to start right here in the great state of Ohio," said the 47-year-old Obama, whose rival McCain, at 72, would be the oldest president elected to a first term. The Democrat's campaign has not made the age difference an explicit issue of the election, but the contrast was implicit as his young family rejoined him on the campaign trail at rallies in western states Sunday and in Ohio. Obama again hammered McCain on the stricken US economy and said his policies would extend President George W. Bush's economic and foreign policy legacy, as his wife exhorted supporters to vote early or turn out en masse Tuesday. "There's this beautiful thing about my husband, he thinks he can do everything," Michelle Obama told an earlier rally attended by more than 60,000 people in Columbus, Ohio. But she stressed: "Barack Obama needs you for the next two days. He's going to need you for the next four years and eight years." Obama has been criss-crossing battleground states that backed Bush last time, and the latest polls suggest his exhausting itinerary will end at the world's most powerful office at Washington's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But McCain said the polls had been wrong before, and would be wrong again come Tuesday. "My friends -- the Mac is Back, and we're going to win," he roared in Pennsylvania, a rust-belt state where polls favor Obama and which he must win to have any chance of getting the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. In the US presidential Electoral College, states are apportioned votes based on their population, ranging from giant California with 55 to the least populous states such as Alaska, Montana and Vermont with just three. McCain renewed his attacks on his opponent's tax plans, attempting to fire up his support at rallies in Wallingford and Scranton by claiming Obama would raise taxes for millions of ordinary Americans. "I've been in a lot of campaigns, I know when momentum is there. We're going to win Pennsylvania, we're going to win this election," the Arizona added. But Gallup laid bare the challenge facing the Republican with its tracking poll Sunday giving Obama a lead of up to 11 points depending on the survey model used. Among "traditional likely voters," Obama was up 51 percent to 43. A Washington Post-ABC News poll gave Obama a 53-44 percent lead, and Rasmussen said the Democrat was on 51 percent to McCain's 46. McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis, however, said the polls were skewing the true perception of the race. "There is no doubt that John McCain is increasing his margins in almost every state in the country right now, and I think what we're in for is a slam-bang finish," he said on Fox News Sunday. The presidential campaign has narrowed down to 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 hopeful in decades. Obama derided McCain after Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday hailed the Arizona senator as the right man to lead the country because he "understands the danger facing America." His campaign rushed out a new TV spot to contrast the endorsement from the enormously controversial Cheney with Obama's backing from former Republican secretary of state Colin Powell and billionaire investor Warren Buffett. 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