You don't have to publicize it for people to know. They know as soon as you cut down or stop your ad buys and scheduled visits.
For the rest of the campaign it would help a lot to just have Palin criss cross the states McCain must have to win, like VA and CO. If she can hit some long shots like MI and PA, good.
Despite what the polls say now, I feel confident McCain will win FL, OH and MO.
Funny you should mention VA. Obama will be in the Hampton Roads area today, (again). Neither McCain or Palin has bothered to show up. This is the Obama /Biden's teams fifth visit in this area of the state. Notice I said area. Not the state as a whole , just in this area.
You can't just show up in Northern VA/ DC area and expect to win the state.
Every Friday, George Allen , ( former VA Governor and Senator), calls in to a local sports radio show and chats politics and sports with the host.
Allen says he gives the McCain camp hints that they should show up in Hampton Roads, yet it falls on deaf ears.
Virginia Beach is the largest city in the state, why bother to show up? /s