For rivals, finance crisis poses on-the-fly tests

Seeded on Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:56 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

The financial crisis has turned the race between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.

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