“Mac’s next stop is Peterboro, NH at 6-ish. According to Fox, thousands are lined up—folks, Peterboro is not a metropolis!”
Peterborough’s population is just under 6,000 people, their venue has space for 800......it’s also in southwest NH, the liberal heart of the state.
This seems significant. A candidate's internal polls are so thorough, they can narrow it down to the towns, if not the precincts they need to visit. This is very important because candidates can only hold so many rallies so it's necessary to hold them in the places you need to challenge or shore up rather than waste time in areas you have in the bag of which you know are lost causes.
McCain holding a rally in a liberal part of NH may mean that the area is really up for grabs.