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Budget Gap Threatens Candidates' Plans

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Deficit projections topping $500 billion could make it difficult for McCain to balance the budget or Obama to offer more tax rebates, as they have proposed.

Expert: "That's really going to throw a wet blanket over very ambitious plans."

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