GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michigan’s image as the world’s automotive capital can be restored under a John McCain presidency, he said yesterday at a campaign rally with running mate Sarah Palin.
Mr. McCain, who visited a Detroit-area General Motors Corp. plant earlier in the day, pledged his support for a loan package for domestic automakers he’d previously looked at with a skeptical eye.
Several thousand supporters turned out for the latest of Mr. McCain’s “straight talk town hall meetings” in the Ford Field House at Grand Rapids Community College.
“The working people of this great state of Michigan are the hardest-working, the best-skilled, the most productive, the most competitive in the world, and they are the backbone and the foundation of our economy,” Mr. McCain said.
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