McCain to visit midstate next week

U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will make two midstate Pennsylvania campaign stops next week, according to the Patriot-News' political blog Pennsyltucky Politics.

McCain will hold a town-hall meeting at the York Expo Center Tuesday morning before heading to Lancaster later in the day.

The presumptive Republican nominee has spent a great deal of time in the Keystone State, which is considered essential to his election chances this fall. His opponent, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), has mostly stayed away from the state despite spending heavily on television advertisements here.