The American people sure do love a quitter.  Especially the blue collar folks in Michigan who’s unemployment rate is the highest in the nation at 8.9%.  America really needs a president who turns his back on one of the neediest states in the union:

Senator John McCain is giving up on his efforts to win the state of Michigan, his campaign said Thursday, in the latest sign that the faltering economy has reshaped the presidential race and cost McCain support in crucial states.

The McCain campaign has spent nearly $8 million on ads in Michigan, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group, a company that monitors political advertising, and now it has no more plans to advertise there, campaign officials said. And McCain canceled a visit he had planned to make to Michigan next week.

McCain had long made it clear that the state was central to his presidential hopes, returning there to campaign again and again and bluntly telling a crowd at a factory in Belleville this July that “the state of Michigan, as it has in many elections in the past, will determine who the next president of the United States is.” His campaign announced its retreat on a day that the news of his ceding the state was almost sure to be drowned out by the buzz created by the much-anticipated vice-presidential debate.

You said it, McCain, not me.

Popularity: 3% [?]