Obama Camp: Staff Will Continue Working In Georgia

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign is pushing back on reports he’s giving up on winning Georgia. News came over the weekend that Barack Obama would be pulling television ads from Georgia. Then on Monday it was announced some of his Georgia staff would be sent to North Carolina. GOP State Senator Preston Smith of Rome says John McCain’s decision to put Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket has re-energized his party in Georgia.

"And so now the whole South will be voting Republican. What we say about Sarah that’s she’s so far north she’s south."

However, officials in Obama's campaign say they are still leaving all thirty offices in Georgia open, and the vast majority of the staff will stay in the state. Most polls show McCain has maintained at least a five point lead among Georgians in the race for the White House.