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Both candidates hot on the trail in Nevada
 
Frank Cotolo
27 Oct 2008
 
Democrat Barack Obama left Hawaii and got back on the campaign trail where he blasted rival John McCain for everything he could conjure about McCain's policies.
 
At a campaign stop in battleground-state Nevada, where polls show Obama slightly ahead of McCain, who was also campaigning there, Obama said again that McCain was an economic clone of President Bush. The crowd applauded and a few people approached Obama aides to say they did not know what Obama meant by clone.
 
"We told them," said an aide, "and they laughed."
 
Obama also criticized McCain for being like Herbert Hoover. The crowd applauded and some people asked why Obama would think that it was bad being like the guy who invented the vacuum cleaner.
 
"We told them who Hoover really was," said an aide, "and they laughed." John McCain, meanwhile, said Obama's tax plan will hurt the nation, the world and possibly other planets.
 
And, McCain criticized George Bush for his damaging economic policy.
 
A Bush aide responded by saying that the President did not seem offended and he voted on Friday for McCain.
 
"That's one," a McCain aide applauded. "And there are plenty more where that came from, don't ya know?"
 
"It's no surprise George Bush voted for John McCain," an Obama spokesman said. "But are we allowed to count clone votes?"
 
McCain also said that he is calling for less government regulations of businesses and more businesses because there will be less regulations. McCain said to the crowd that the country under his Presidency would have more businesses, therefore putting more people to work and making less work for him.
 
Fast-growing Nevada, with five electoral votes, is a target for Obama, whose campaign is counting on winning all the battleground states once Republican.
 
"This is a good place to bet we win," said an Obama aide in Nevada. "Because they allow betting here. I think a lot of people are going to win bets on Obama and that alone will help the economy."
   
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