Blue Michigan

In another sign that Obama has a serious chance of taking a big bite out of Bush states, Marc Ambinder reported that Obama is pulling staffers out of Michigan. He is doing so not to save money and not because he's ceding the state. Staffers are moving away from Michigan because the state appears to be safely in Obama's territory, so they're moving to Indiana. 

It's easy in the hullabaloo of the campaign to ignore the amazing news here. Following the 2004 election I would have said Indiana may not vote for a Democrat for decades. The state went to Bush in 2004 with 60 percent of the vote. And yet Obama is throwing all he can there with three weeks to go, and Palin is reportedly campaigning in Indianapolis on Friday.

And in a related story, CNN switched Virginia to the lean Obama category following the release of its poll showing Obama in front by 10. Bush won that state by 9 in 2004.