Democrats may be viewing the national catastrophe fund issue as a potential opening to help their presumed presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gain ground against his Republican rival.

The Obama campaign criticized Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his opposition and sought to tie him to President Bush as the presumptive Republican nominee traveled to Orlando to speak at a meeting of newspaper editors on the state.

"Once again, John McCain has made clear that he is much more interested in standing with George Bush than getting the facts right or doing what's right," said Obama aide Hari Sevigan, according to Capitol Hill publication The Politico. "But what John McCain doesn't understand is that by choosing to stand with George Bush's failed policies instead of standing with the families of Florida, he can't deliver the change the country needs and deserves."

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