Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania are labeled battleground, at least according to a map of the political landscape created by the Washington Post.
The map lays out the field in the presidential race, marking 16 states as "battlegrounds."
New Jersey has a strong Democratic party and hasn't supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, but Republicans here have been making noise about making a run at the Garden State's 15 electoral votes after President Bush came within 7 percentage points of John Kerry in 2004.
Sen. Bill Baroni, the chairman of the McCain campaign in New Jersey, laid out his case for taking New Jersey in an Inquirer profile of him Sunday.
And Sen. John McCain is scheduled to visit North Jersey today for a fund raiser.
Democrats, however, point to their huge advantage in registration and say the sagging economy makes voters hungry for new leadership in Washington. Despite the Post's analysis, a recent Monmouth University poll gave Barack Obama a 14 point lead in New Jersey.
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