jburkeson1
October 2, 2008, 7:11pm
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I expect this will be the new trend for the McCain/Palin campaign, from here on out it will be a swift downhill slide into November.
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Sources: McCain pulls out of Michigan
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau
John McCain is ending his attempt to win Michigan, a serious blow to the Republican’s presidential hopes.
A Republican source with knowledge of the move told The Detroit News that Michigan Republicans were informed Thursday that the campaign would stop airing television ads in Michigan and pull most staff and other resources from the state.
McCain campaign officials were not immediately available for comment.
jmckenna1
October 2, 2008, 7:22pm
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jburkeson1:
I expect this will be the new trend for the McCain/Palin campaign, from here on out it will be a swift downhill slide into November.
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Sources: McCain pulls out of Michigan
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau
John McCain is ending his attempt to win Michigan, a serious blow to the Republican’s presidential hopes.
A Republican source with knowledge of the move told The Detroit News that Michigan Republicans were informed Thursday that the campaign would stop airing television ads in Michigan and pull most staff and other resources from the state.
McCain campaign officials were not immediately available for comment.
I think you may need to have someone read more than one paper to you, Joe…:mrgreen:
See below
But now, as voter registration is expected to wind down in the next two weeks and the impact of John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, becomes clearer, the Obama campaign is apparently scaling back its outsized electoral ambitions. It has already shifted staff, abandoning some states and putting others on notice. If it once technically played in all 50, it’s now down to 48 — you can cross Alaska and North Dakota off the list — and two other states, Montana and Georgia, are on life support. The choice of Palin not only crushed Obama’s hope of winning the Frontier State — his campaign has withdrawn most of its staff and ceased advertising there — but it also caused repercussions in North Dakota, another hockey-crazed northern state where snow-mobile racing and moose burgers apparently resonate. The Obama campaign announced this week that it is redeploying its North Dakota staff — estimated in some press reports to be more than 50 people.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1843532,00.html
mbazzo
October 2, 2008, 7:59pm
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Perhaps McCain should have read the Detroit news before making such an asinine decision.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/POLITICS01/810010381
jburkeson1
October 2, 2008, 8:07pm
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Life imitates poker, timing is everything.
ccurrins
October 2, 2008, 8:09pm
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jburkeson1
October 2, 2008, 8:16pm
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I smell… L A N D S L I D E ! :D:mrgreen:
mbazzo
October 2, 2008, 8:33pm
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The highlighted link only proves what those of us in Michigan have known for decades, Michigan is a key democratic state. If McCain would have read the news on the 1st of October, the decision to stop campaigning here may not have transpired. Many of the business associates I deal with are (were) hard core Democrats, that is until Obama came along. the fear now is increased taxes to small business to fund national health care.
