Politics on the Hudson

 Republican presidential nominee John McCain is pulling his resources out of Michigan amid polls showing Democrat Barack Obama building on his lead in the state, according to the Detroit Free Press.

“McCain campaign manager Rick Davis called former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to tell him of the decision just before Romney got on a conference call with reporters today,’’ according to Free Press reporter Todd Spangler. “Romney was holding the call with McCain strategist Doug Holtz-Eakin to raise claims that Obama’s policies are no good for Michigan’s struggling economy.’‘

A Michigan Republican Party source earlier told the Free Press on background that McCain was pulling out of the race in the state and moving workers to Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida.

Meanwhile, recent polls have found Obama’s his lead in Michigan is in the double digits.