Kyl stumps for McCain in Colorado, New Mexico

Arizona's other senator is on the campaign trail today. Sen. Jon Kyl is stumping for his colleague, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, in Arizona's neighboring states, Colorado and New Mexico.

Kyl insists that McCain has not lost either of them. "Both are states where we'd really like to do better than the polls show that we're doing," Kyl said. "But there's a lot of enthusiasm and I'm anxious to see what the folks here in eastern New Mexico think."

Kyl was in Colorado earlier, where, he said, the polls showed that McCain is down a little bit.

"But," Kyl said, "most folks seem to remember other occasions where just before the election, the polls showed the Republican candidate down, but on Election Day, Coloradoans came back and supported the Republican."

Kyl said the people he's meeting on the campaign trial are worried about Democratic candidate Barack Obama "both with respect to his share the wealth attitude and also the nation that he's so inexperienced in foreign policy that, as his running mate said, there would be a generated crisis somewhere in the world to test his mettle sometime after his election."

Another of Arizona's top politicians also was on the stump today. Gov. Janet Napolitano was campaigning for Obama in Ohio.