Obama takes campaign battle to GOP territory [November 02 2008]

In the final weekend of a long race for the White House, Barack Obama promised to heal America's political divisions while rival John McCain fought to hold on to Republican-leaning states and pledged to score an upset. For Obama, buoyed by record campaign donations and encouraging poll numbers, it was a time for soaring rhetoric and forays into Republican territory. "We have a righteous wind at our back," the Democrat said.

McCain saw the weekend as a final opportunity to persuade voters to prove the polls and pundits wrong and sweep him into office. "We're a few points down but we're coming back," he told supporters in Virginia. Obama campaigned Saturday in Nevada, Colorado and Missouri, all states that voted for President Bush four years ago, while McCain struggled to keep Virginia from voting for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1964.