Biden To McCain: Pull Robocalls

GREELEY, CO - Joe Biden demanded today that John McCain's campaign yank its "scurrilous" television ads and robocalls, stressing what he says will be an urgent need to unite the country after Nov. 4, regardless of who wins.

Biden, speaking to a crowd of about 4,000 in a county that George W. Bush carried overwhelmingly in 2004, said that things "are feeling awful good" for the campaign now, but stressed that "polls and endorsements do not determine the outcome of an election."

"Folks, there's still two weeks left. A lot can change," he said. "You know what these guys are gonna do, they're going to throw everything from the kitchen sink to the bathroom sink and everything else they can find at Barack Obama and me between now and then. And we cannot, we cannot, we cannot forego one single solitary vote, ladies and gentlemen."

Biden later referenced an interview McCain conducted this morning during which he defended the campaign's robocalls but also said that they are focusing on the economy. Biden challenged him to back up those words.

"If he's really serious when he said ... that this election is all about the economy, then I say, John, stop your ads, bring down those robocalls," Biden said. "If it's about the economy, argue about the economy. Not about Barack Obama's character. Not about these scurrilous ads."

And striking a more bipartisan tone than in past weeks, Biden said that he and Obama are running because of how "damaging the politics of division has been" in America.

"I know some of you are not going to like it, because some of you may be really, very, very partisan," he said. "But folks, we mean it when we say, America's got to put these divisions behind us. God willing, we're elected, you are going to see a president, a vice president who are going to do everything we can to reach across the aisle."

The stop in Greeley was the first on Biden's two-day bus tour of Colorado, a red state that Democrats are fighting to win. Betsy Markey, the Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, said her party can't take anything for granted, though.

"The Republicans in the past have had a very, very strong, aggressive 72-hour get out the vote program, and I don't think we can underestimate that again," she said. "We just have to continue to work very hard."

(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)