Battleground North Dakota? Obama Challenges, But McCain Holds Edge in Prairie

— -- Could the battle for the White House extend all the way to the badlands of North Dakota? A few months back, the Obama camp thought, 'You Betcha!'

North Dakota, the land where buffalo roam but the votes haven't gone to a Democratic presidential contender since President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, was one of 18 states in which Obama originally aired television ads and it's a split ticket state (two Democratic senators and a Dem congressman despite its red reputation).