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(CNN) - Barack Obama is campaigning in Charlotte, North Carolina, this hour - a state that has voted Republican in several recent elections. But a recent CNN poll there suggests the race is extremely tight.

"We are going to have to work quickly in a bipartisan fashion to resolve this crisis to avert an even broader economic catastrophe," he said at the top of his remarks.

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