"It will probably be McCain that I will vote for," said Isabel Starkus. She and fellow stay-at-home-mom Natalie Hickman plan to vote Republican in three weeks.

They hope John McCain (web|news|bio) 's economic strategy is enough to make the country better for their children.

"I think they're both heading us toward a socialist state and I think Barack Obama (web|news|bio) will get us to a socialist state faster and John McCain will get us there slower," said Hickman.

Government worker Elsie Akinbobola and her daughter -- a first-time voter -- plan to support Barack Obama.

"We have a crisis to solve and an economy to save," she said.

They believe his economic strategy will go further toward getting the country back on its feet.

"Historically, Republicans, they always think big business," Akinbobola said. "He is more the middle class, the working class -- that is the class that has always been neglected."

Retirees are worried about the economy as well. At a senior citizen art class, the talk these days is about politics.

"I have questions as to whether Mccain will fall back on the way things were done before," said Chris Marlow, a retiree. "I think that Obama would be better at decision-making than Mccain."

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