Confident Kerry aims his arrow at Bush

Kerry has focused heavily on job-creation plans, and on Monday he labeled Bush missing in action on the economy. He ridiculed the president for taking a trip to the Daytona 500 auto race in Florida at a time when the economy should have his undivided attention.

"We don't need a president who just says, 'Gentlemen, start your engines,'" Kerry said. "We need a president who says, 'America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.'"

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While Kerry was sounding like a general election candidate, Howard Dean's campaign went through an election-eve shake-up that left him battered and his future in even greater doubt.