Obama Lay Out Economic Plans
The industrial Midwest, with the nation’s highest unemployment rate, is a key battleground in the presidential race.
Both candidates spent Friday there. Republican Sen. John McCain met with female voters in Wisconsin, while Democratic Sen. Barack Obama spelled out his energy canada goose strategy in Ohio. Both Canada Goose Jackets stressed their plans to boost the economy.
He told an audience in Dayton that the planned shutdown of a General Motors plant in nearby Moraine, the cancellation canada goose uk outlet of Continental flights out of Cleveland and the threatened closure of a cargo facility in Wilmington all stem from the high cost of crude canada goose coats on sale oil.
“It gives you some sense of the cheap Canada Goose urgency that we feel when it comes to our economy,” he said. “I buy canada goose jacket know this area Dayton, Wilmington, these counties and the surrounding area have seen some blows, economically.”
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Obama repeated his promise to invest $15 billion a uk canada goose outlet year in alternative energy sources like wind and solar power. And he vowed to make cars twice as fuel efficient over the next two decades.
Teamster Jeff canada goose store Lies applauded Obama’s proposals. His family has already switched to smaller cars that eat less gas.
“I think energy is going to be one of the key topics of this campaign,” Lies said. He said it was a good idea for Obama to start Canada Goose Online off his campaign on energy in an automobile city like Dayton.
Sympathizing With Voters
McCain has also been looking for votes in the hard hit canada goose outlet auto sector. On Thursday, he held a town hall meeting at a plant in Michigan that makes parts for the Ford canada goose clearance Explorer and the F 150.
“America is hurting today,” he said. “Michigan is hurting today. The automotive industry is hurting. We’ve got big canada goose clearance sale problems, and we’ve got big challenges.”
McCain’s effort to sound sympathetic was partly undermined, though, by one of his top advisers and campaign Canada Goose sale co chairs former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. has become “a nation of canadian goose jacket whiners.” McCain quickly told reporters, “Phil Gramm doesn’t speak for me.”
“The person in Michigan who just lost his job isn’t suffering from cheap canada goose uk a ‘mental recession,'” McCain said. canada goose uk shop “I believe the mother here in Michigan or America who’s trying to get enough money to educate their children isn’t whining.”
Wooing Women In The Midwest
Both McCain and Obama have been focused, in part, on female voters this week. Obama had a 13 point edge with women in a recent Gallup poll. McCain drew very different reactions from Canada Goose Coats On Sale two women Thursday, when he dropped in on the Senate Coney Island Restaurant in Lavonia, Mich.
Ida Shelly canada goose factory sale shook McCain’s hand, asked about his sons in the military, and said she’ll be doing everything she can to support him.
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