in their own words
Republican John McCain bused through Ohio in search of votes Friday.
"You're going to be the battleground state again. You're going to be the one who decides. I need Ohio and I need you."
"We're a few points down, but we're coming back, and we're coming back strong. We're closing, my friends, and we're gonna win in Ohio."
"[Obama] began his campaign in the liberal left lane of politics and has never left it. He's more liberal than a senator who calls himself a socialist," (a reference to Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont).
Democrat Barack Obama returned to Iowa, where his victory in the presidential caucuses gave his drive for the White House a major boost.
"What you started here in Iowa has swept the nation."
"A couple of elections ago, there was a presidential candidate who decried this kind of politics and condemned these kinds of tactics, and I admired him for it. He said, 'I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.' Those words were spoken eight years ago by my opponent, John McCain. But the high road didn't lead him to the White House then, so this time he decided to take a different route."
"We have the chance to prove that the one thing more powerful than the politics of 'anything goes,' the one thing the cynics didn't count on, is the will of the American people."
In Ohio, Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, took aim at McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin.
"You cannot lead the world with a divided country," he told a rally in suburban Dayton. "We need to move past the politics of division and attack. Over the past week Republicans have gone way over the top in my view, calling Barack Obama every name in the book. It will probably get worse in the next three and a half days."
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spent the day in Pennsylvania.
"If you believe that America is the land of possibility and you don't want your dreams dashed by the Obama tax plan increases, then Pennsylvania, we're asking for your vote."
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