The self-described "hockey mom" wooed her peers, holding up a Detroit Red Wings hockey shirt and describing how her son Track, now a soldier soon to deploy to Iraq, once played for a local team. "Michigan, you took care of my boy and now that boy is serving in the US Army and he's going to take care of you." Casting the double act as political outsiders, Mr McCain urged voters to "send a team of mavericks who aren't afraid to go to Washington and break a little china".