With a little over a week to go for the November 4 election, Democratic candidate Barack Obama attempts to shackle his Republican rival, John McCain, to Bush’s shattered economic legacy, thereby attempting to rebut attacks on his own tax policy.

Heading into the final week of the presidential campaign, both the presidential hopefuls plan to spend most of their time in states that President Bush won last time, a testimony to the increasingly dire position of McCain and his party as the Election Day is ‘round the corner.’

Obama is all set to present his a final “summing-up” speech for his campaign in Canton, Ohio. Aides say that he will mostly reprise the themes that he first presented in February 2007, when he began his campaign for the presidency. Obama’s aides said that in this final lap, attacks on McCain will be joined by an emphasis on broader and less partisan themes, like the need to unify the country after a difficult election.

Yet another time, Obama will list the deficiencies of the McCain-Bush philosophy, which encapsulated his main campaign themes heading into the election on November 4, as America battles its deepest economic crisis since the 1930s.

McCain, on the other hand, has settled on Pennsylvania as the one state that Democrats won in 2004, where he claims he has a decent chance of winning. McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, plan to spend their time largely in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri and Indiana - all states that Republicans had entered the campaign thinking they could bank on.

McCain will stick with the message he has embraced over the last week - presenting Obama as an advocate of big government and raising taxes.