The LA Times:
Exactly 44 years after Lyndon B. Johnson became the last Democrat to capture the state of North Dakota in a presidential election, it looks like Barack Obama won’t be the next.
The Associated Press reported this evening and an Obama spokeswoman confirmed that the Chicago-based campaign is pulling its 50-some staffers out of the heavily Republican state full of embittered small towns and shipping the workers east to Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the Democrat’s prospects seem brighter and closer.
We keep seeing indications of Camp Obama giving up on various states. This is one more pin in the balloon.
And don’t be telling me how this is because McCain is spending massive money up there. McCain doesn’t have anyone up there. No people, no offices. And he’s winning there, going away.
Tags: Barack Obama, McCain, presidential election, republican state, state of north dakota
September 24th, 2008 at 3:37
Hi, you mentioned that, ‘We keep seeing indications of Camp Obama giving up on various states. This is one more pin in the balloon.’ I was very pleased to read that. Can you provide me with the states please?
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alice
September 24th, 2008 at 7:22
North Dakota would be one.
Georgia would be another… they’ve halted all TV ads there, I’m hearing.
Idaho would be another. They almost didn’t bother with that one at all.
Alaska would be another.
The word I have is these are all being considered write-offs.