Debate stakes higher for McCain as insults mount

[Terri]

By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press
October 7, 2008


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Running short on time, John McCain has the most riding on the second presidential debate, though Barack Obama will be out of his scripted comfort zone in the town hall-style confrontation. It could be ugly if Monday's tussling is any indication.

Tuesday night's debate comes exactly four weeks before Election Day with a lot going on both inside and outside the campaign: Polling shows Obama approaching the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory, Wall Street is tumbling even further and both candidates are escalating character attacks.

Their target audience in the debate: the roughly 10 percent of the electorate who are undecided and an additional quarter who say they might still change their minds before Nov. 4.

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[MrJLDoug]

McCain Needs a knock out tonight and I don't know if this Town Hall Forum will provide that.
With Tom Brokaw as moderator and questions coming from the Internet plus a few from the audience. You know that Move on .org will flood the web site with questions that favor Obama. Who knows how the make up of the audience will be toward the liberals.
McCain my have to take a page from Sarah and tailor the answers to what he wants too get out and not what the moderator or Obama want.

[thomas]

"...either, however, can afford to swing so hard that he turns off voters,..."
Balogna - McCain needs to kick him right in the "nads. If McCain plays nice in tonight's sand box, he'll be burried in the sand along with the rest of the cat stuff!
The Old Chief

[papajaxxx]

McCain needs to keep saying:

"Obama's inexperienced and has done nothing!"

and...

"Obama has associated with radical leftists in his past!"

And, of course a few choices words, such as:

Socialist, Communist, Marxist would also help.

[mary kammer]

Hopefully, the McCain camp will review these comments before the debate. What McCain needs to do is stay the course with Obama but not make it the focus of the debate. We need to know more of McCain's plans for the country. Many of us have been out of work, in my case, more than a year, and are concerned what can be done to stimulate the economy to include jobs-especially for older Americans who have been in the workforce for many years but find themselves some of the first to be laid off when companies have to downsize. Also, keep pounding the point that the Democrats are behind the failed economic policies that have caused the current disaster as the country was doing just fine until they came into power some 2+ years ago. This is what we want to hear.