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COLUMBUS, Ohio

With just two days to go, greatest number national polls show Obama ahead of McCain. State surveys recommend the Democrat’s path to the needful 270 electoral votes

Obama exuded confidence. “The last couple of days, I’ve been just sentiment good,” he told 80,000 gathered to listen him

In Peterborough, N.H., McCain held his final town-hall-style event in the state that put him on the national draw in 2000 and launched his GOP primary comeback eight years later. “I come to the people of New Hampshire to ask them to let me go onward one further mission,” said McCain, who is looking for an upset triumph against Obama.

Polls show the six closest states are Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada and Ohio. All were won by President Bush but made competitive this year by Obama’s record-shattering fundraising. The campaigns also are running aggressive ground games elsewhere, including Iowa, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia.

All that’s left now for the candidates is to make sure people consecrated by a vow Tuesday

Analysts count upon a historically large voter turnout. In 2004, 60 percent of legally qualified voters form in a mould ballots. Michael McDonald, a George Mason University associate professor who tracks early voting, predicted Friday that this year’s reckon could approach 64 percent, which would be the biggest percentage since 1908.

The question is, who will those voters be?

Pollsters differ in opinion. The latest poll for CBS News and The New York Times shows Democrats outnumbering Republicans by 7 points and Obama leading McCain by 11. The latest Fox News poll shows Democrats with a two-point identification edge and Obama leading by 3. Gallup’session latest poll using its time-honed “traditional likely voter” fashion shows Obama up by 8.

There’s disagreement as well upon the kind of sort of turnout to expect from first-time voters, young people and African Americans. Democrats predict those groups pleasure vote at a higher clip than usual and break heavily for Obama. McCain’s team believes they will, too, if it have existence not that that voting also will increase amidst other groups, keeping the general makeup of the electorate roughly unchanged.

About 27 very great number absentee and in season votes were cast in 30 states as of Saturday night, more than to the end of time. Democrats outnumbered Republicans in pre-Election Day voting in key states.

That has Democrats

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