Obama campaign scraps IN & GA from their battleground list

[Tender Branson]

or so it seems:

CHICAGO -- Today the Obama campaign announced a new TV ad focused on the economy to air beginning Thursday in 16 battleground states. The new ad entitled Book highlights Obama's plan to break with the failing economic policies of the past eight years and put America's middle class first. The ad will run in AK, CO, FL, IA, MI, MO, MT, NM, NV, NH, NC, ND, OH, PA, VA, and WI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYSeGl4bks

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Is it because of unfavorable public polling in GA and internal polling in IN, or because he'll pick Bayh and the state receives "Special Treatment" later on ... ?

[Tender Branson]

OOPS

Obama is just running a different ad in Indiana.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_Fix_the_economy.html#comments

Interesting.... it doesn't sound like he's completely ceding Indiana yet, but rather backing off a little while testing some new ad strategies in a state which should be more receptive than many.

That keeps Bayh and Indiana on the list. I just read that Bayh, Biden and Richardson will speak at the Convention on Wednesday, the day of the VP.