McCain Campaign Concedes Key Red States Are Battlegrounds -- And Must-Wins

The McCain campaign just wrapped up a big damage-control conference call with reporters, and in it, they seemed to make a striking concession: That the race is uncomfortably close in two reliably red states, Indiana and North Carolina.

They also seemed to concede that the core battleground states that they must win are all red states.

Asked to explain their route to an electoral college win, campaign adviser Greg Strimple cited the following six states -- Ohio, Virgina, Florida, Missouri, Indiana, and North Carolina -- and described them as "all states where we're tied or ahead."

Strimple added that victories in all of them would effectively give them a route to victory, when combined with wins in other battlegrounds. But he seemed to clearly state that those six were crucial to them winning -- the foundation for their victory. All of them, of course, went for Bush four years ago.

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Obama has a bigger war chest than McCain. Typically, it's the Democrat that is outgunned, but this time, we should use the advantage and simply make McCain bleed out his money.