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Poll: Economy top issue for LI

An overwhelming majority of LI voters think the economy is the most important issue in the presidential election.

Francine Caruso wants a president who can "fix the economy" and it's not hard to see why. This year, she's lost her job, couldn't sell her Wantagh home, and watched her husband delay retirement as his portfolio lost $30,000 last week in the market plunge.

But Caruso, 48, said she doesn't like what she hears from either Barack Obama or John McCain.

"The way these two are yelling at...

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