From Politico:
Offered a chance to respond to the suggestion that the McCain campaign is awash in defeatism, a McCain official delivered a decidedly measured appraisal: "We have a real chance in Pennsylvania. We are in trouble in Colorado, Nevada and Virginia. We have lost Iowa and New Mexico. We are OK in Missouri, Ohio and Florida. Our voter intensity is good, and we can match their buy dollar for dollar starting today till the election. It's a long shot, but it's worth fighting for."
Sounds like an honest assessment, and pretty much what the electoral map was expected to look like all along. But if this McCain official recognizes that Iowa is lost, then why is Sarah Palin spending Saturday in Des Moines and John McCain holding a rally in Iowa on Sunday?