[Anderson Cooper, Cnn Anchor:] And welcome to our second hour at the CNN Election Center here in New York. This is a special edition of "AC 360." We're on the verge of history for the candidates and country. The longest and most expensive presidential race ends tomorrow with less than and hour before Election Day and the hopefuls are spending every last minute in a frantic rush for votes. We've got all the late developments over the next hour. Senator Barack Obama in Manassas, Virginia this evening, we brought you some of his speech live, he's speaking right there. We're also following Senator John McCain campaigning this evening in Henderson, Nevada and his rally should start any moment now. We're going to bring that to you as well. And his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin will be at a rally in Reno, Nevada. We'll also bring you some of her words live. We've also just received a summary of her medical history, it was sent out a short time ago, it says she is in good health. More details ahead. We have new polls out tonight, the latest "CNN Poll of Polls" has Obama holding a seven-point lead over McCain. And some sad news for Obama, his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham has died of cancer in Hawaii. Obama spoke about her often; he learned of her passing today. Ms. Dunham was 86 years old. And also tonight we're also keeping a very close eye on the battleground states; right now the contest is getting closer in Pennsylvania and Florida. CNN's John King is going to be at the "Magic Wall" for the latest, but we begin with Obama on message on the eve of the election. Candy Crowley "On the Trail," live from Manassas, Virginia Candy.
[Candy Crowley, Cnn Senior Political Correspondent:] Anderson, we started out this day, which really was sort of a Democratic wish list, is what we've been doing. Barack Obama started out in Florida, nice crowd there, several thousand in an indoor venue. He gave his standard stump speech. What we learned later of course, was that two hours earlier, approximately two hours earlier, he has learned that his grandmother had died. The first time we actually knew of that was when we landed in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is in fact another on the wish list, sort of a gateway to the south that the Democrats would dearly love to bring home. And we got an e-mail from the staff with a statement from both Barack Obama and his sister noting the passing of his grandmother. We went and I have to tell you, Charlotte, North Carolina, it was pouring down rain. People had waited as they always do because they have to go through security, several hours. And I mean, it was drenching rain just from start to finish. People were soaked, and some of them didn't have umbrellas. But they waited. And when he got there, he said to the crowd that his grandmother had died, called it a bittersweet moment, gave a very moving tribute to her saying she's one of those people that was a quiet hero, that wasn't ever in the headlines, nobody knew her name. She wasn't one of those national but she quietly, like so many other Americans did her job and was a hero in her own way. We at the time couldn't see it because we were fairly far back, sometimes where these cameras are. But some of the still photographers got just amazing shots because it really showed the bitter sweetness of this campaign, with Barack Obama crying when he was talking about his grandmother. He recovered very quickly, got back on message. He has mentioned her briefly here in Manassas, Virginia, basically a Republican area. I'm going to ask our cameraman just really briefly to look around, although now he can't actually do it. But I have to tell you, as far as I can see, and it is several football fields away, you just see people crammed-in. There are a lot of people here. I'm not going to try to estimate for you. But it has been that kind of day. This is, in fact, I think we're going to see a little of this, Anderson. It is one of the amazing, and perhaps frankly, that we have come to expect because people came out when they came out first it was curiosity, some of them came for the history. A lot of them obviously came because they support Barack Obama at this point. It has been that kind of campaign. I remember being with him in Springfield, Illinois, when he announced and there were people for blocks and blocks and blocks. So he's just been that kind of candidate, charismatic. He is obviously able to bring this crowd to a frenzy, frankly. And we've seen that quite a lot. So it's been, as he said, a bitter sweet day for Barack Obama. At one point he said, you know what no matter what happens tomorrow, you gave me more than I gave you. So wrapping it up, this is it. This is it this is his final big campaign rally. You've just heard it end. From here, he's going back home to Chicago. One last trip tomorrow and he'll go to neighboring Indiana; it'll be a small trip. He may go to a voting booth or polling place to talk to people. But this, right now, the final rally of Barack Obama's bid for the presidency, Anderson.
[Cooper:] Candy, tomorrow, there's no big rallies, there's not he's not campaigning all throughout the day, he's basically just got one small appearance?
[Crowley:] He's going to yes he's just going to fly over to Indiana, in which quite a way tells you something about this campaign, that's an incredibly Republican state there. At least at the presidential level, they haven't elected a Democrat into the White House since 1964 in Indiana. But he's going to hop over there. They are familiar with him there because it obviously shares a TV market, very close to Chicago. And do some work, shake hands. They talked about maybe taking to a factory. They really haven't decided on it but it won't be like this, it won't be a rally, it'll just be a smaller event we're told.
[Cooper:] Candy, we were talking with our panel in the last hour about the differences in these campaigns in terms of how they are ending their campaigns. John McCain and Sarah Palin still hitting at Barack Obama over this week and it was the issue about coal; a comment he made several months ago about the future of coal plants in the United States. Obviously, there have been the Ayers issue and lots of issues that they've been bringing up. He's really been trying to give a closing argument, as you said, over the last couple of days. Is he still has he been, still mentioning John McCain a lot or is he now going to kind of talking big picture?
[Crowley:] No, absolutely. Well, both. Actually I mean, yes he's totally still goes after John McCain. I mean, he started out saying, thanking actually John McCain for what the McCains said about the passing of his grandmother but then, flowed right easily into, listen, he's done some things right but the fact is he's really George Bush, he still hits his policy. I talked to one of his advisers not too long ago and said, is he going to go all positive in the final days. And he said, listen, they're not letting up on us and we're not letting up on them. So they made a decision to keep going, so yes, there's high flying rhetoric, there's a lot of big picture very much back to the change issue which really brought him to the table and brought him here tonight. That one word, change, has been such a dynamic for him. He seized on it, there was this almost subterranean wish from voters as we saw all along the way, just something new. He tapped into that. So in this final round, he has definitely been going back to some of those old themes but he's also been continuing to hit John McCain, Anderson.
[Cooper:] Candy Crowley has been reporting this entire campaign on the Barack Obama campaign. Candy, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Again, we're waiting to hear from John McCain, we want to give you each candidate equal time tonight. Senator McCain with a lot of ground to gain, mostly in red states and no time left to do. "On the Trail" with the McCain forces tonight is Dana Bash.
[Dana Bash, Cnn Correspondent:] In his frantic final push, John McCain is closing not so much with an argument but an urgent plea.
[Sen. John Mccain,  Presidential Nominee:] We need to win Virginia on November 4th and we've got to take this country in a new direction, and we will win. Volunteer, knock on doors, get your neighbors to the polls. And we need win in Pennsylvania. Tomorrow, with your help, we will win. With this kind of enthusiasm, and this kind of intensity, we will win Florida and we will win this race.
[Bash:] The mantra inside camp McCain is that polls are tightening, but privately, McCain advisers admit, winning would be nothing short of a miracle. The itinerary for McCain seven-state sprint says it all: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona. All but one are red states he's trying to keep Obama from winning; a game of defense big time.
[Mccain:] We need to bring real change to Washington and we have to fight for it.
[Bash:] At McCain's first stop in Florida's critical I-4 corridor, about 1,000 people showed up, lots of empty space in a place George Bush drew 15,000 four years ago. But what some of his crowds lack in numbers they make up with enthusiasm, fired up by lines like this.
[Mccain:] Senator Obama is in the far left lane of American politics, he's the most liberal senator in the United States Senate; more liberal than the guy that used to call himself a socialist.
[Bash:] And as he has his whole life from prisoner of war to politician, McCain is drawing his energy from being an underdog.
[Mccain:] They may not know it but the Mac is back. And we're going to win this election.
[Bash:] McCain ends his marathon day with a midnight rally here in Prescott, Arizona, on the courthouse steps behind me. It's where Barry Goldwater launched his 1964 presidential run and for that reason, McCain ends all of his senate races here. It was supposed to be symbolic and even sentimental but it's actually going turn into more of a campaign rally because Barack Obama is gaining ground on McCain right here in his home state. Dana Bash, CNN, Prescott, Arizona.
[Cooper:] Our sort of super-sized political panel is next. We're also mapping out the shape of the next House and Senate delegations and whether Democrats can build on their gains from 2000. We're also going to take you live to two rallies: John McCain, we're told he's now on-site at his rally in Nevada; we're also going to take you live to Sarah Palin rally tonight in Reno all that and more ahead on this hour with "360."