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With Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Mitt Romney all spending their Saturday in Michigan, a new poll has McCain leading Romney in the state:

McCain 23%
Romney 17%
Huckabee 11%
Paul 8% 
Giuliani 8%

Jonathan Martin also reports that the ad war in Michigan is heating up with Romney and McCain spending roughly equal amounts of money on the air:

Romney, who has far out-spent McCain and all his GOP competitors on TV, has about $566,000 worth of spots up across six of the sprawling mitten state's markets.  But McCain has just shy of $537,000 behind his own Michigan ad campaign. 

Both candidates have over 1,000 points in the pricey Detroit market which reaches the state's southeastern population center (Romney has 1,285; McCain 1,087).

Lagging well behind McCain and Romney on the airwaves here is Mike Huckabee.  He's only got about $238,000 on Michigan TV, including under 400 points on Detroit.