McCain-Palin blitzing across battlegrounds

This is it. No more trail days or campaign rallies or chances to tout your proposals and slash your opponent after today. With Obama sitting somewhat comfortably atop a double-digit national lead, that leaves McCain the task of making up vitally important ground across several battleground states - all in one day.

With that deficit in mind, the McCain campaign is sending the GOP ticket across the country to almost every battleground states imaginable in a furious last-minute blitz to perhaps pick up some momentum and maybe convince enough undecided voters to flip the predicted results from Ohio to Nevada, Florida to Colorado.

Today’s scheduled stops for McCain and Sarah Palin are mind boggling. After a midnight rally in Miami, he went to a raucous event in Tampa before jetting off to East Tennessee (for the VA/NC mountain TV market) and then on to Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Mexico and Nevada. He will of course end the day preparing to head back to Arizona for Election Day.

Palin will be in Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada. She will then board a plane for the long flight back to Anchorage, Alaska, where she will cast her vote tomorrow.

The ticket is obviously covering all of their bases and hitting the usual battlegrounds for this final effort. But it’s interesting to ponder where they are - and aren’t - stopping today.

McCain may be in the VA/NC market in Blountsville, TN, but he isn”t physically in either state. And the play in East Tennessee is for boosting enthusiasm and Election Day turnout among rural white conservatives, not the swing voters of the rest of those two states. Is it overconfidence that he has made up enough ground to ignore these battleground hotbeds and concentrate on base GOTV? Or is it resignation that the only way McCain retains these two red states is with maximum effort from the rural counties he will most certainly carry?

New Mexico and Iowa are generally conceded to Obama given his huge lead in the polls in both states. Yes, Obama did hold that mega-rally in Des Moines last week, but it was really more for nostalgia’s sake. And those cryptic “internal polls” from the McCain campaign that apparently show Mac closing fast in the Hawkeye State have yet to be seen by outsiders.

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