Cindy is all shook up

Campaigning can be hazardous for the spouses too. Just ask Cindy McCain who continues to accompany her husband as he tours the battleground states with her right arm coddled in a soft cast and black cloth sling. She didn't trip, she didn't bang it. Someone just shook her hand a bit too hard.

"I'm absolutely fine," was the word from Mrs McCain in Michigan on Wednesday, her husband, all smiles, by her side. His sound advice to her: she would "not have to shake so many hands" while joining him on the stump.

The senator's wife suffered the injury at a golf club fundraising event. The McCain team explained she has had wrist trouble before, which was aggravated by "enthusiastic supporters". After an X-ray Mrs McCain was back on the trail.