Oct 22, 2008 12:47 pm US/Eastern
McCain Looks For Help In New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. (WBZ) ―
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A group of eight students painted the word "M-A-V-E-R-I-C-K" across their chests and lined up next to each other atop the stands behind McCain Wednesday.
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John McCain, trailing Barack Obama in the polls, is asking New Hampshire voters to help him once again.
"I love you. I love New Hampshire," he told a crowd at St. Anselm College Wednesday.
"II know I can count on you again to come from behind, and take a victory and bring it all the way to Washington, D.C. next January."
"More than once they've ignored the polls and the pundits and brought me across the finish line first. I can't think of any place I'd rather be as Election Day draws close than running an underdog campaign in the state of New Hampshire."
McCain told the crowd that Obama wants to re-distribute wealth in the U.S.
"Senator Obama insists on a tax hike as a matter of principal and the principal seems to be the redistribition of wealth as an ends to itself," he claimed.
Obama says under his plan he will lower taxes for 95-percent of all working Americans.
McCain says he is a fiscal conservative the country needs.
"My friends, I'll take a cleaver and I'll take a meat ax and I'll take a scalpel and we'll stop this out of control spending."
McCain also continued to distance himself from President Bush.
"The next president won't have time to get used to the office, he can't invite testing from the world, he will have to act immediately, we can't spend the last four years as we have spent much of the last 8 hoping for our luck to change."
"As I said at the last debate, I'm not George Bush. If Senator Obama wanted to run against George Bush he should have run for president 4 years ago."
Supporters at the rally hope McCain's underdog status will help get people out to vote.
"Time and time again John McCain has been down in the polls and he's come back and he's won," said Brad Shoemaker, a student at St. Anselm College.
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