McCain Pulls out of Michigan, Steps up efforts in Wisconsin

The McCain camp has announced they are pulling resources out of Michigan and moving them into Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Maine.

Michigan was one of five blue states that McCain was after. The others include Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Hampshire. McCain needs to win a couple of blue states since it is looking as if Obama may win some important red states.

"Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are two states we feel very strongly about and two states that would be key to putting us toward 270 electoral votes, "said McCain political director Mike Duhaime.

However, McCain faces some obstacles.

First, Obama is way outspending him in Wisconsin and in other key states. Between Sept. 16 and 29, Obama outspent McCain on TV in Wisconsin by almost 2-to-1, according to figures provided by a northern Virginia firm that monitors political advertising, TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG. Obama spent $1,254,281 on local broadcast stations in the state, while McCain spent $657,923.

Also, Barack Obama has made gains in the polls in recent weeks. In Wisconsin, Obama was leading by 2 to 4 percent in early September. But Thursday, the Atlanta firm of Strategic Vision had Obama up by 9 percent in Wisconsin, at 49-40. Two other recent polls confirmed that Obama was gaining ground here.