John McCain called for an "economic surge" Wednesday, putting extra heft behind his domestic agenda as both he and Barack Obama stress energy and the economy in battleground states.

Speaking in front of about two dozen employees of the Merillat cabinet company in Jackson, Ohio, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee repeated his call for an "all of the above" plan to lower energy costs using alternative energy, expanded oil drilling and nuclear power.

He said that needs to complemented by business tax cuts and other economic incentives.

"What we need today is an economic surge. Our surge has succeeded in Iraq militarily, now we need an economic surge to keep jobs here at home and create new ones," McCain said, essentially repackaging his economic proposals. "We need to reduce the tax burden on businesses that choose to make their home in the United States of America.

"We need to open new markets to U.S. products and we need to reduce the cost of health care and we need to end the out-of-control spending in Washington that is putting our debt on the backs of our children."

Meanwhile, Obama told an audience one state over in Elkhart, Ind., that McCain's claim in an ad the day before that Washington is broken is a belated declaration.

"John McCain started running an ad yesterday saying that Washington is broken. No kidding," Obama said. "It's taken him 26 years to figure it out."

And he said McCain has traded in his maverick stripes to embrace the policies of President Bush.

"You can't be a maverick when politically it's working for you and then not a maverick when it doesn't work for you, when you're seeking your parties' nomination," Obama said.

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, who is talked about as a potential running mate for Obama, also criticized McCain at the town hall meeting for aligning himself with Bush.

"John McCain is not a bad man, but he is badly mistaken when he has embraced the Bush and Cheney economic policies and he is badly mistaken when he has embraced their energy policies. Someone was telling me this morning that ... his solution to the American energy challenge was to drill, drill, drill. Well it sounded a lot like my dentist to me," Bayh said.

FOX News' Mosheh Oinounou and Bonney Kapp contributed to this report.