Five days from their first presidential debate, Democrat Barack Obama has climbed in the polls as Republican John McCain fumbled his response to a looming US economic cataclysm - one that threatened to match the financial catastrophe of the 1930s Great Depression.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson resisted a Democratic push to add additional help for households to the bailout measure, saying financial markets remain under severe stress with an urgent need for Congress to act quickly without adding other measures that could slow passage.
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Obama was campaigning in North Carolina on Sunday after declaring a day earlier McCain was in a panic, realising he and his Republican party were philosophically responsible for the near meltdown of the US financial system. The Arizona senator, a 26-year veteran of Congress, shot back that his first-term Illinois Senate colleague was resorting to scare tactics.
But McCain faces the daunting task of trying to square his long history of advocating corporate and financial deregulation - the sort of loose controls many blame for the turmoil on Wall Street.
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