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Hours after accepting the Republican nomination, McCain and running mate Sarah Palin opened a two-month sprint to the November 4 presidential election in Wisconsin as long as Democrat Obama headed to Pennsylvania as the pair sides touted cures for the economy.

A new report showed the U.S. jobless reprove unexpectedly discharge up to 6.1 percent in August, adding to worries about an economy that opinion polls show was already the top concern for American voters.

"These are tough times," McCain told a crowd of more 12,000 in the Milwaukee suburb of Cedarburg. "Today the jobs state is a different reminder.

"All you've ever asked of government is to stand adhering your edge, not in your way, and that's what I intend to do," the Arizona senator said, pledging to keep taxes vile and cut them where possible. He issued a relation promising to retrain workers and act the part of an economic plan that would create jobs.

McCain, who later picked up the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police marriage, rapped Obama's tax proposals, which contain a abundant tax divide toward lower- and middle-class workers goal would increase taxes for the wealthiest Americans. "The American population cannot afford a Barack Obama presidency," he said in the statement.

Obama, an Illinois senator, said the job losses showed the need for vary in the economic approach used by President George W. Bush because that he came into office in 2001.

Speaking to workers at a glass and lens manufacturer in Duryea, Pennsylvania, and chatting with customers while eating banana cream pie at The Avenue Diner in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Obama chided McCain for failing to address the economy at the Republican convention.

"You would think George Bush and his potential Republican successor John McCain would subsist spending a lot of note the rate of worrying about the economy, all these jobs that are being obdurate on their watch," Obama said.

"But if you watched the Republican general meeting. over the last three days you wouldn't discern that," he reported. "We own highest unemployment find fault with in five years but they didn't say a thing about what is what going on with the central part class."

"HE JUST DOESN'T GET IT"

Obama portrayed McCain as being out of touch through ordinary American workers.

"John McCain the other day said that he thought the economy was fundamentally sound," he said. "Well what's more constitutional than having a job?

"He just doesn't get it," Obama said. "I don't think they have a sense of what people are going through."

He touted his own plans for boosting the U.S. economy, saying he would enact tax cuts that would kind office 95 percent of Americans, end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas and make health care more affordable.

The renewed battle on the economy came the day after McCain's acceptance speech concluded the Republican convention. Obama accepted the Democratic beck at his body's meeting. the week before.

Republican error presidential solicitant Sarah Palin, who repeatedly ridiculed Obama during her convention speech, campaigned with McCain in Wisconsin, another time taking on the role of attacker by blasting Obama for his stance on the Iraq war.

She told the cheering Cedarburg crowd that Obama on Thursday night at last admitted the decision to boost troop levels in Iraq was successful and ridiculed him for saying it had "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."

"I guess when you turn out to be profoundly inaccurately on a vital national security issue, as luck may have it it's comforting to pretend that everyone else was wrong too," she said, adding that McCain was "one corypheus in Washington who did predict success, who refused to call retreat and risked his own career."

McCain has been one of the most outspoken supporters of U.S. military involvement in Iraq, season Obama touts his record of inimical the war from the start.

After Wisconsin, the McCain and Palin headed for Michigan, where they picked up the endorsement of the 327,000-member Fraternal Order of Police, and later Colorado, followed by the agency of New Mexico onward Saturday. Obama was traveling across Pennsylvania to New Jersey, where he planned a fundraiser at the home of Jon Bon Jovi.

A take down 38.9 million U.S. TV viewers — more than person in 10 people — watched McCain's acceptance speech to the convention, topping the 38.3 million people who watched Obama's the week before, Nielsen Media Research reported. Palin drew 37.2 million viewers.

McCain trails Obama weakly in most national opinion polls as they head into the election but he promised the Republican faithful at the convention he would win. Polls show majorities favor Obama's conduct attached the management, although McCain is usually favored on foreign policy issues.

With the conventions out of the way, the next big campaign milestone is the first of three debates, upon the body September 26 in Oxford, Mississippi.

(Additional reporting by the agency of Ellen Wulfhorst in Pennsylvania)