We pay attention to our own polls," Mark Salter, a senior McCain aide told reporters Saturday. "Pennsylvania looked much better than Michigan."
McCain should no longer quit in PA, anymore than he should have quit when Romney was leading by double digits in New Hampshire
That's a ridiculously flawed analogy. NH was basically McCain's only chance to register a pivotal momentum-building first victory (since Ethanolia was a lost cause) and campaigning there didn't really hinder his chances anyway else due to the staggered nature of the primaries. By devoting more resources to PA than any other state, McCain is letting Obama outspend him badly in pivotal swing states won by Bush that McCain needs, exasperating an already significant fundraising deficit. Furthermore, the polls have consistently showing Obama with double digit leads in PA, so all that money/manpower isn't even producing any tangible gains for McCain there (even if it did, the gains would need to be tremendous to justify the attention McCain is lavishing on it IMO.) As I said in a poll I created a few days ago, McCain NEEDS to start abandoning PA NOW (he can do it quietly or gradually to avoid horrible PR), but some resources need to be diverted immediately to the states that would win him the election, namely OH, FL, VA, NC, MO, NV, CO. The opportunity costs of his current PA operations are mind-boggling.
McCain Camp, RNC to Spend $160 Million in Final Weeks
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/10/mccain-camp-rnc-spend-million-final-weeks/Well oops there goes that sound theory
