Washington, Aug 6 : The US presidential campaign has seen many sides of its competitors, one being Republican presidential hopeful John McCain asking his wife to take part in a topless beauty pageant.

The beauty pageant not only includes topless women, but on occasion bottomless ones too, as per ESPN. com.

"I was looking at the Sturgis schedule, and noticed that you had a beauty pageant, so I encouraged Cindy to compete," Usmagazine quoted McCain as saying at a rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.

Washington - Republican White House hopeful John McCain made his sharpest divide yet from US President George W Bush, declaring in a new television advertisement Tuesday that the state of the nation has worsened over the last four years.

"Washington's broken. John McCain knows it," a narrator says in the new ad. "We're worse off than we were four years ago."

Washington  - Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert.

With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or rival Democrats.

New York, Aug. 4: Senator Barack Obama has described Republican rival John McCain''s campaign as cynical and negative, but not racist.

"Their team is good at creating distractions and engaging in negative attacks," the New York Daily News quoted Obama, as saying.

Speaking during a break from campaigning in Florida Saturday, Obama said that the McCain''s campaign isn''t trying to vilify him because he''s black.

Washington, Aug. 4 : One in six white workers in America continue to remain uncommitted to either Barack Obama or John McCain, as they don’t believe these two candidates have answers to improving their personal finances, the healthcare system, or the economy as a whole.

Democratic Senator Barack Obama holds a 2 to 1 edge over his Republican rival Senator John McCain among the nation''s low-wage workers, but many are still unconvinced that either presidential candidate would be better than the other.

More than disaffection drives these workers, according to the new national poll by the Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.

Washington, Aug. 4 : Aides of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain have asked 45-year-old Eric Cantor, a young Jewish congressman from Virginia, to submit documents as part of a rigorous vetting process to select the ideal running mate for the November presidential poll.

According to The Telegraph, Cantor would be a dramatic choice for McCain, who is running almost level with Barack Obama in national polls but whose aides believe he needs to shake-up the White House race if he is to prevail in November''s general election.