McCain’s latest ad buy is going up in Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. This is a very defensive buy. Bush won all of these states at least once except Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He won six of them twice. But the most glaring signal is that McCain is spending money defending Mississippi. I don’t know what his internal polls are telling him, but they obviously are arousing some concern. It’s also interesting that Michigan and Florida are not on this list. The RNC is running ads in Michigan though, so that might explain this particular omission in McCain’s buy.
One thing is for certain. Obama has succeeded in putting McCain on defense and forcing him to spend money on his own turf.
Update [2008-7-8 16:47:43 by BooMan]: The Page made a correction without notice, changing Mississippi to Missouri. Missouri is certainly not as traditionally red as Mississippi, but Bush did carry it twice.