Democrat Barack Obama's wife Michelle joined her husband Sunday in exhorting more than 60,000 supporters here to remake the nation as the would-be first family put on a loving tableau two days from election day. After being introduced by Michelle with their two young daughters in tow, the presidential hopeful said: “We are two days away from changing America, and it's going to start right here in the great state of Ohio.” The Illinois senator bidding to become America's first black president again hammered Republican John McCain on the stricken US economy and said his policies would extend the broken legacy of President George W. Bush. “In two days, at this defining moment in history, you can give this country the change we need,” Obama told a crowd in front of the Columbus state house that city police said numbered over 60,000. Michelle Obama rejoined her husband on the campaign trail with their girls in Colorado and Missouri Sunday, triggering flattering photographs across newspaper front-pages of the putative first family. She told the rally in the must-win state of Ohio that the campaign had been an “amazing journey,” as young and old found a voice in politics for the first time. But the race was not about Barack Obama. “It never was, it never will be. This race is about us, all of you, the millions of you who want to change this country and want to be part of building a different kind of democracy,” Michelle Obama said. “There's this beautiful thing about my husband, he thinks he can do everything,” she “Now, it's our turn,” she said. “If we want a leader like Barack Obama, our job is to send him to the White House. It comes full circle. “Barack Obama needs you for the next two days. He's going to need you for the next four years and eight years.” Meanwhile, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama sought to energize voter turnout in the final, frenetic weekend of a long and grinding U.S. presidential election campaign. McCain spent the day in Virginia and Pennsylvania looking to turn out the vote on Tuesday. Virginia normally votes Republican but appears to be siding with Obama, while McCain is trying to steal traditionally Democratic Pennsylvania from Obama. Obama, enjoying a lead in national polls and in many battleground states where the election will be decided, sought a knockout punch in three states that went for President George W. Bush in 2004 - Nevada, Colorado and Missouri. Nowhere to be seen on the campaign trail was Bush himself. With a popularity rating below 30 percent, Bush was not asked to campaign for McCain. Obama has consistently sought to portray his opponent as a Bush clone. The Obama camp gleefully pointed out that Vice President Dick Cheney had spoken warmly of McCain in Cheney's home state of Wyoming. “I'd like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy,” Obama said in Pueblo, Colorado. “Senator McCain had to vote with George Bush 90 percent of the time and agree with Dick Cheney to get it.” McCain, in Springfield, Virginia, ridiculed Obama for a line in his stump speech in which the Democrat says his victory in the party's primary had vindicated his faith in the American people. “He said the other day that his primary victory vindicated his faith in America. My country has never had to prove anything to me, my friends. I've always had faith in America,” McCain said. The Obama campaign called McCain's attack “pathetic.” Americans on Tuesday will vote in what amounts to 51 separate elections in each state and the District of Columbia.
