The US election is just little over two weeks away, and President Bush and Senator John Kerry continue to trade attacks on the campaign trail. On Friday, the two men focused on the battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin in the final run up to the election.

With three presidential debates behind them, the candidates are running neck and neck in the final phase of this largely anticipated election. In his effort to tar Kerry as a tax-and-spend liberal, Bush told a cheering crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that Kerry would weaken America at a time of danger and war.

US President George W. Bush said, "He has voted to raise taxes 98 times. That's a vote for a tax increase about five times every year he has served in the Senate. That qualifies as a pattern. He can run from his record, but he cannot hide."

Kerry, in turn, speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, accused the President of being an inflexible ideologue and having mismanaged Iraq and the war on terrorism. Kerry detailed a list of mistakes made by Bush that has left the economy lackluster and lowered the living standards for average Americans.

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry said, "This is the first president, first president in 70 years, measure that, first president in 70 years to see income decline in every year of his presidency. Remarkably, the president said he's proud of his record."

The latest ABC tracking poll show Bush and Kerry tied at 48 percent each of likely voters. This White House race has so far cost hundreds of millions of dollars and provoked sharp divisions within the American electorate.

Source:CCTV