McCain, Palin Stump at Manhattan Fund-Raiser

Elizabeth Holmes reports from New York on the presidential race. After a month of market turmoil, top Wall Street executives paid thousands of dollars to gather and listen to the GOP ticket deliver their stump speeches. John McCain and Sarah Palin raised $10 million at a high-dollar Manhattan fund raiser according to one McCain adviser. The Republican nominee and his running mate held a massive event on behalf of their party and, during their respective remarks, repeated much of what they have been saying on the campaign trail. “The reason why we’re going to win this election,” McCain told the crowd of hundreds, is “the American people know the difference between rhetoric and record. They know the difference.” McCain and Palin weren’t overly confident. Rather, they adopted a tone that suggested they were motivating each other as much as the crowd—a theme that first arose on Monday. Much like his new stump speech, McCain talked about Americans “hurting” and that it’s ... (link)