BREAKING: McCain campaign getting ready to give up on Michigan!!

Politico set to report McCain campaign poised to give up on Wolverine State.

Developing... http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/

Update from Politico:

John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play.

McCain will go off TV in Michigan, stop dropping mail there and send most of his staff to more competitive states, including Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. Wisconsin went for Kerry in 2004, Ohio and Florida for Bush.

McCain's campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Republicans had been bullish on Michigan, hopeful that McCain's past success in the state in the 2000 primary combined with voter dissatisfaction with Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and skepticism among blue-collar voters about Barack Obama could make it competitive.

McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin spent the night after the GOP convention at a large rally in Macomb County, just outside Detroit. The two returned later last month for another sizable event in Grand Rapids.

But recent polls there have shown Obama extending what had been a small lead, with the economic crisis damaging an already sagging GOP brand in a state whose economy is in tatters.

A McCain event planned for next week in Plymouth, Michiigan, has been canceled.

Like two weeks ago?

looks like they didn't work- OH SNAP!

Unless Obama goes on TV and declares corn to be the crop of Satan, and that he will devote his entire term to eradicating it, I don't see how McCain can come back there.

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Because then you need their "expertise". When Obama was behind, Todd pimped for him. When McCain is going down the toilet, Todd is trying to minimize that.

He's maybe not the weasel that David Gregory is, but he's closing fast. He's definitely within the 3% weasel MOE.

see the internal numbers so it must be a by by McCain poll and besides since Obama is ahead in FL, they can't lose that state, Obama is ahead in NC, bad loss for McCain, hell MO Obama is now ahead by 1. McCain is in bigtime trouble so all he can do is use his money for certain states, just to save them. Yeha.

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