WASHINGTON - Job losses, increases in food and fuel costs, and falling property values brought an end to the longest expansion in spending on record and made the economy the most important issue in next week's presidential election.
The flagging economy is the main reason Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an Illinois senator, is ahead of Republican rival Senator John McCain of Arizona in most polls. On the question of which candidate they trust most on the economy, voters in Florida picked Obama over McCain by a 9-point margin, and in Ohio, the Democrat leads by 12 points, according to a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll taken Oct. 25-27. --more--"
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