With just over a week to go until Election Day, Barack Obama and John McCain will both be stumping for votes on Monday in the key battleground state of Ohio.  Obama will use his lunch stop in Canton to make what aides say is his closing argument for 2008.

In a release to reporters entitled, "Senator Barack Obama to Deliver Closing Argument Speech On The Change We Need," the Obama campaign says it will be a speech that "lays out the choice in this election and details how he will fix our economy and bring the change we need to Washington."

The Sunday night missive says "Senator Obama will tell voters that after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy."

The GOP wasted little time responding to Obama's plans, and I'm sure you aren't surprised that they took a few rhetorical swipes at him along the way.

"Barack Obama is a weak closer precisely because his closing arguments ignore voters' underlying concerns about his inexperience," said Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant.

"At a time when America faces historic crises, we should not elect somebody as untested and inexperienced as Obama."

I had to sort of chuckle at the inexperience argument, because the McCain camp put that one out to pasture with the choice of Sarah Palin for VP, but now the inexperience charges are back in ads and on the stump.

As for Obama, in case you didn't see the pictures, he drew more than 100,000 people to a speech in downtown Denver on Sunday.  While several news organizations said it was his largest to date, I'm not so sure about that. 

Regardless, he can certainly bring them in.

A week from tomorrow, the votes will be cast and we'll be on our way to knowing whether Obama is going to win or not.

McCain said Sunday, "I'm going to win it."

They each have eight days to prove their mettle one last time.