From today’s AP wire, "Bush is often in states that could decide '04":

If you live in Pennsylvania or Florida, your chances of catching a glimpse of President Bush are pretty good. Missouri, Ohio or Michigan, too. He has been to each more than 10 times as president, and he's sure to be back again soon.

Though Bush says he's not yet campaigning for re-election, he's beating a well-worn path through a handful of states likely to be presidential battlegrounds next year.

But if you live in states he carried overwhelmingly in 2000, or lost by a similarly large margin, don't expect to see Air Force One anytime soon, unless it's 30,000 feet up.

Bush has yet to visit Rhode Island, Vermont or Hawaii, states where Democrat Al Gore won handily in 2000. Nor has he been to Idaho or Kansas, states he carried comfortably.

"The political season will come in its own time. I've got a job to do," he told a Philadelphia-area fund-raiser earlier this week. That was during his 22nd visit as president to Pennsylvania.

Even while claiming that politics remain out of season for him, Bush has attended more than two dozen such fund-raisers since June, collecting nearly $65 million of an estimated $200 million goal for a primary season in which he has no opposition.