The McCain camp said yesterday that it was pulling out of Michigan to better spend its resources elsewhere. Sarah Palin connected with voters, like those in Michigan, is Thursday night’s debate, and she told FNC’s Carl Cameron that she did not want the McCain camp to pull out of Michigan. McCain’s Michigan chair Steve Yob has e-mailed Palin to agree.

We have all been wrong at times, and I think this is a decision that will be corrected in a couple of weeks. We were ahead three points as of a week ago according to MRG, a polling firm that I trust more than any national pollster.

It’s possible that the threat to pull out of Michigan was a feint by Steve Schmidt, who has evidently made it look real. The idea would then be for Palin, resurgent after the debate, to make a case for the voters of Michigan. McCain would then agree and send Sarah Palin, and Todd, to Michigan to campaign, where voters will feel a connection with her for standing up for them. Also accomplished by this mood, the sense of defeatism arising in certain sectors of McCain’s supporters, stoked by the “Michigan pullout,” will be reversed and their hopes reinvigorated by the decision to reengage.

The campaign continues.