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Jonathan Martin
53 minutes ago
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.
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McCain will go off TV in Michigan, stop dropping mail there and send most of his staff to more compe ive 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 compe ive.
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, Michigan, has been canceled.
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Politico article on yahoo news.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/22895
Damn.
DUN DUN DUN!!!
Looks like damage control to me.
He did something very similar when his campaign was in trouble in the primaries.
Good strategy. Not sure it will make much of a difference in the end tho'.
Yeah, he's going to have to hit the toss up States and he'd better do it with Palin by his side if he expects anyone to show up.
You libs crack me up...he's pulling out of Michigan because he knows he has it in the bag...
He's now going to concentrate his resources on states that are in play...like Iowa...
We can go ahead and put Michigan in the red column...Don't say I didn't warn you on November 4th...
Brahahahahahaha!!!!
And you fools said McCain didn't have an exit strategy.
AP reporting via Atlanta Journal-Cons ution.
http://bit.ly/2dW32i
Michigan is my home state and I can't believe how stupid those people are! They've had a one-state recession going ever since they elected that new idiot Governor - and they still haven't figured out that the liberal policies espoused by the democrats haven't done them ANY good. They still want to vote democrat - I guess they want the rest of the country to suck as bad as the state of Michigan!
Bah. My bad.
Michigan is my home state and I just can't believe those people haven't learned anything. They've had a one-state recession since they elected that idiot governor who raised taxes, yet they still insist on voting democrat! I just don't get it - I guess they want the rest of the country to suck as bad as they do!
And they realize the conservative republican McSame is worse. You are the stupid one.
You are the stupid one who doesn't get it.
Explain it to us.
Holy ing . If he's conceding MI then his internal polls must be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Do you now or have you ever lived in Michigan? I grew up in Flint - you know, the birthplace of General Motors - and it's almost criminal what has happened to the economy there. My father worked for General Motors for over 40 years - and it's so depressing what's happened that he won't even drive down the road where the factories he worked in used to be.
The state is suffering greatly and it's due in large part to the policies of the democrats in power. Michigan is known to be a state that is very hostile to business because of the taxes.
Michigan has been a blue state for as long as I can remember - yet things have gotten progressively worse. Yet, they keep voting democrat - I just don't understand it!
So Please - explain it to us!
From what I have been told from people up here, Michigan's economy was not that good before Grandholm got in either.
Its the same way you all keep voting republican when you see how screwed things got under Dumbya and you all still want to vote for another 4 years under McLame? Explaine that to me!!??!??
The people of MI know that Obama is for the working man and McLame is for the corporate greed. Get your head out of your asses.
Hasn't Michigan's economy been in the tank since everyone realized American companies make ty cars?
How will Obama help "the working man"?
This ones hooked; reel him in.
He's going to bring them "change". Well - change is all they'll have in their pockets because he'll take all their dollars!
Spin this one for me Whottt. I want to see what you can say about this.
He'll be posting an article later that you might find interesting.
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