This is a must-win State for Obama – pretty much its a case of “no Michigan, no White House” for Obama…and yet in recent polling, according to Real Clear Politics, McCain has a slight lead.
Now, one has to expect that in heavily unionised Michigan Obama will eventually emerge the winner – but it seems pretty clear that Obama will have to fight for it, and that is bad news…any time and money spent fighting to hold is time and money which can’t be spent trying to poach in GOP territory.
As per usual, I still say the GOP has a long, hard road in front of it – but there’s no reason for any GOPer to be gloomy.