Despite talk of Iowa no longer being a battle-ground state and of McCain pulling out resources, he and Palin continue to make appearances there. McCain made stops in Cedar Falls and Waterloo last Saturday and Sunday while Palin stopped in Des Moines and Sioux City.
Republicans and Democrats alike are baffled.
"I can't believe they would spend any time in Iowa at all," commented Joe Gaylord, former executive director of the Iowa Republican Party.
McCain says that he is "doing fine."
But officials in the campaign say that the state is more competitive than is portrayed through the media.
McCain's Iowa campaign chairman, Dave Roederer, says that even though they are behind in the polls, they are still "within striking distance." Obama is up in the polls by about 12 percent. Last cycle, Bush was leading Iowa by only one percentage point and ended up getting all the state's electoral votes. Perhaps McCain feels like he has to defend the states that Bush won in 2004.
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