McCain would do better with another one-on-one like Saddleback.  These media-driven phony debates are more suited to Obama, who has spent days rehearsing his answers so he doesn’t stutter and pause, say too many “uh” or “you know” to fill in while he scans his brain for the programmed phrases.

McCain speaks clearly because he knows his material from years of experience.  I hope this comes through in the debate.

However well or poorly the two perform, we can be sure the media will declare Obama the winner, as they have already stuffed the ballot boxes.

I agree that the MSM was good at not only blaming Bush and Republicans for the economy going south, but they were really good at adding McCain to that.  And that is when their very meddling in the economy in the first place created the problem.

But hopefully Obama showed his real worth when he had to be drug kicking and screaming back to Washington when he selfishly just wanted to keep campaigning after the MSM took his lower polls and turned them around for him by slamming on McCain.  Now it seems that McCain put Country First and helped get the process moving again and the polls are looking even again and hopefully they will once again go back up for McCain.

This debate tonight is crucial, and if McCain can get a couple good ones in and show Obama as the shallow bit of worthless fluff that he is, then the electoral map will return back into McCain’s favor.

McCain has no control over the MSM media’s efforts on Obama’s behalf, and it is certainly sad that they were able to get the public to perceive that the Democrats had no responsibility whatsoever for the economy tanking – but the entire people are not dumber than a box of rocks – and they are seeing that Democrats were really the ones that created the problem in the first place with their socialist engineering.

There are 40 days, and every day things change, and I suspect that the Dems have lied enough so many times and been covered by the MSM, that Americans are about to completely ignor anything coming from the MSM.  Unfortunately, there are a considerable number of Americans that have been conned for good by the Dems and they will always believe MSM.

Don’t put too much stock into the polls.  Remember the polls had John Kerry ahead of George Bush by 6%.  Remember who’s doing the polling and their agenda for the “bandwagon effect”

I agree with both of you, Jack and John.  It’s easy to get discouraged when we see the polls turning in a direction that is opposite our wishes.

Right now I’m going to order some McCain/Palin stickers for our cars.  It really cheered me up yesterday when I saw a big SUV with such a sticker that took up half the rear window.  We can’t use yard signs in our neighborhood, but the cars are seen by more people anyway.