After the January 29 primary, Senator John McCain will have to do the type of campaigning that he dislikes, an aerial trek from one media market to the next to hold rallies on the tarmac before moving onto the next location. As McCain has tried to avoid such campaigning, this is one comfort zone he will have to give away as Super Tuesday comes close.
None of the four major candidates up for the GOP nomination have the time to compete in every state that will vote come Super Tuesday. The four candidates will have no choice but to pick and choose their states using strategies focused on winning the most states and delegates.
“It’s basically a de facto national primary,” according to senior McCain adviser, Charlie Black. He added: “So we’ll spend time making national news.”
If Rudy Giuliani and John McCain survive Florida, they will probably spend time in the northeast and California due to possibly big victories in the states that bring the most delegates.
Romney has spent the early part of his day in Florida to blast McCain’s stance on the economy. A win in Florida would give Romney a vital boost. So far, he has not decided on which states to target.
Mike Huckabee plans to target a few Southern states.
However, advisers of both the McCain and Romney campaigns said that both of them will not completely concede the South to Mike Huckabee. According to Black, McCain will target Georgia which hands out 72 delegates.
All surviving GOP candidates will debate in California on Wednesday.
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