Wow. This is like Kerry having to campaign in Mass or Bush having to campaign in Texas. If the bus tour was “Hey, we’re going to Iowa and Wisconsin so we’ll truck on through Illinois,” that would be one thing, but this schedule means he’s getting on AF1, coming to Illinois, doing the stops and then getting on AF1 again.
If in September of 2004 I had seen Bush scheduling a three stop bus tour in Texas and then flying to New Hamster, I would have figured we were about to have President Kerry. I’m not ready to say that sort of thing now, but...wow.
Or like Romney feeling the need to campaign in Utah....