Washington ? 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’s 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, for instance, 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 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.

On the road almost constantly, he has used the visits — mostly a succession of day trips — to paint an optimistic picture of an America on the economic mend, which he credits to the tax cuts he pushed through Congress.

That counters the continuing U.S. deaths in Iraq and a weak job market that have been pulling down Bush’s approval ratings and contributing to GOP jitters about an election still 14 months away.

By matching official-duties events with $2,000-a-ticket fund-raisers, the White House has been able to pass along part of the travel tab to taxpayers — a tactic used by all recent presidents seeking re-election.

Florida, where Bush’s brother Jeb is governor and where the 2000 race was ultimately decided, is his next favorite destination after Pennsylvania, with 16 presidential visits so far, followed by Missouri at 13 and Ohio and Michigan each at 11.

Bush lost in Pennsylvania and Michigan in 2000 and won narrowly in Florida, Missouri and Ohio.

Bush has also made multiple trips to Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico and Minnesota, all states which he lost narrowly in 2000, and to Arizona, Tennessee and West Virginia, where he won by small margins.