MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Sen. John McCain and his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have scheduled a town hall meeting in Waukesha on Thursday morning.

The event will be the third time McCain and his running mate have held public events in Wisconsin. They also have appeared in Cedarburg and Green Bay.

But neither has been in the state since Sept. 19. Since then, McCain's Democratic opponent Barack Obama has been in Wisconsin twice and his running mate Joe Biden has been here once.

Tickets are required for the 9:30 a.m. Thursday event and are available at McCain and Republican Party offices in Waukesha, West Allis and Germantown.

The event is being billed as a town hall meeting. Neither McCain nor Palin took questions from the public at their previous stops in Wisconsin.