well, right now Obama is clearly ahead in Domestic issues and McCain is clearly ahead in Foreign issues. McCain is well behind in polls because of the banking scares we've had making more of the population feel domestic issues are more important. So McCain needs to try to gain some ground with the economy if he's going to stand any chance of winning the presidency. He needs to be very aggressive in claiming to be pro-regulation and call Obama a Liar in claiming he was against regulation; he needs to mar Obama's clean image. he needs to claim Obama's plan will decrease jobs.

McCain wil come off as a desperate, angry, bitter old man...

and Obama will be very elegant, tactful, and help drive the nail in the coffin for McCain's campaign.

Obama will keep appealing to the independents,  and McCain will struggle to keep his base intact.

He'll keep his base, but his base isn't going to win him the election.

Its up to McCain to destroy the myth that is OBAMA tonight.

He has to deliver his economic message,
He has to explain why Corporate tax cuts are EXTREMELY important in this economic stage.
He has to show how Obama is going to tax the hell out of Americans, and hurt the economy even more.
Not only attack ear-marks.....that are, as distasteful as they are, what drives a republic.

He has to domestically bring to light not only Obama's inexperience, but his radical associations w/questionable figures.

Obama had a hard time putting Clinton away.......

Can he put McCain away tonight ?

it hasnt been so far

whenever i hear obama speak he rattles about nothing. 

if Obama wouldn't raise spending but actually cut spending i would vote for him.  but he isnt going to do that.

Obama is much more organized in his speech, but he's also speaking in generalities.

omg, weiler and Mccain are related, they have the same ability for denial.
Obama stated that he wasn't intending to attack Pakistan but wasn't going to stop till we get bin ladin, but Mc Cain comes right up next, and say you heard him he wants to attack Pakistan... like the American people are total idiots and can't listen for themselves..... don't get me wrong i think both dems and rep's are shit, and should be lined up and shot for treason.... but for someone to do that on national TV he's acting like no one is even listening.
thats kind of retarded.

Well, yeah, they tried but...

McCain wanted to look confident and angry, he looked shaky and... old (a democrat behind the camera for sure), taking some time to really enter the thing. The "that one" move was just stupid, asking for a stick in days to come.

Obama was just confident, to the point where I personnaly found it annoying at times, and really general in his answers, visibly not even bothering to answer in the end. The forced added time reaction was mightily close to make him look bad but he somehow managed to get out of it.

But it was really difficult for both, since the questions are kind of stupid (reaction on a hypothesis of Iran attacking Isra

orly?

no jokes, I'm really voting for Obama.

Oh,  and I hope the republican charges are right.

I hope deep down Obama is a radical socialist.   I hope he's doing the whole "religious" thing to get elected.  Since the majority of Americans believe in an imaginary sky friend.  (Sad, truly.)

,,, but I'm no where near convinced of that.  In fact,  he's very likely not that "radical".

However,  I'm voting for him simply because he is the base the left needs to really get a grip on this country.   8 years of Obama, and a socialist like myself may not be a minority.

The economic crisis right now makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.   Hopefully over the next decade as science and technology advance,  less and less people will cling to pathetic religious faiths and idiotic "morals". (Example, silly pro-lifers, and those against genetic engineering of the human being).

Obama is no where near being radical enough to satisfy me,  However the current political environment in America would never allow him to.

So let's hope Obama IS as radical as conservatives claim.    America doesn't just need a wake-up call,  it needs to be hit in the face with a sledge hammer.   That's the only way it'll wake up and move in the right direction.

OMFG, the crazies come out tonight.
i think the constitution should be ratified again, and the sates get control over themselves again.
we don't need a DEA, FBI, justice DEPT, ATF, secret service, and US marshals all doing the same thing.
we don't need NSA, CIA, foreign services committee and ambassadors, they also all do the same job.
and don't get me started on the IRS... personal income tax is illegal by the constitution, and they aren't even a federal agency, and never have been.

If we followed the constitution how it was designed to be,   America would lie in rubble.