Reply #4: McCain only recently started paying attention to VA [View All]

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Obama was blanketing the state with ads, building his organization, opening campaign offices, and had volunteers working in the state for months (and this was building on the infastructure he already had in place to win the primary by 20 points). McCain didn't realize VA was in trouble until it was way too late.

But he's been competing hard in FL and OH in the very beginning, those were the 2 most obvious battlegrounds. At one point FL was the only state where McCain had more offices than Obama (not sure if this is still true).