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It's almost time to vote. After months of debating the issues, Americans go to the polls on Tuesday to select who they want to serve as the nation's 44th president.

Minutes into last night's presidential debate, the already listing ship of free-market Republicanism groaned, keeled over and began a long journey to the bottom of the political seas.

The dramatic collapse of top-tier financial institutions is reshaping more than the markets; it's recasting the landscape of the Obama and McCain campaigns.

McCain has seven homes. Obama has one, but it's worth more than a million. Does that mean they're rich. Steve Henn reports on where the presidential candidates fall on a scale of American wealth.

Fortune sat down with the candidates to see how their answers compared on a few essential questions.

Both the Obama and McCain campaigns have started stumping on economic issues. Steve Henn reports on the dollars and cents in the nominees' recent speeches.

Energy issues have arguably never received so much public scrutiny.

Barack Obama's emergence as the presumptive Democratic nominee on Tuesday sets the stage for a sharp partisan debate over the issue weighing most heavily on voters: the economy.