Second Presidential Debate - Do or Die for John McCain

Barack Obama and John Mcain entered the second of three Presidential Debates on Tuesday October 7th. Since John McCain is now behind Barack Obama in all the polls, the one thing that the GOP nominee had to do is to deliver THE performance of his political career to possibily change the direction of the election, but it never happened. Instead Barack Obama clearly won the debate as all the polls have claimed.
Which was supposed to be a format of the debate that favored John McCain, neither candidate were very successful in using the town hall format to help express compassion for what voters are facing today. What they both accomplished is to use the debate to further highlight their positions, besides criticizing each other on their policy beliefs.
All Barack Obama had to do was to tie John McCain in the debate for him to be considered the winner. But instead, he took the debate away from McCain and won handily. Presidential debate results are overpowering in favor for Barack Obama.
For John McCain, it appears that traveling around the states now in an attempt to sway voters to come his way may be out of the question, because there really is no more time to do so.
Reporters on CNN seem to believe that what he needs to do now, especially in todays failing economy, would be to leave the campaign trail, and focus on his economy plan, and try to convince voters that his plan is better. He most likely should secure TV advertisements about the economy and his plan instead of trying to mount verbal insults to Barack Obama. Sara Palin now needs to take as little headline as possible, and to accomplish this she needs to stay out of the news. Instead, just today she was found guilty of abusing her power as Governor of Alaska in a case involving her ex-brother-in-law. Bad news for the McCain camp.
With the Economy as the number one issue on voters minds at this time, it appears that everything else should be unimportant to McCain. Less than 1 month to go in the election and it appears that Barack Obama is running away with the election. Even his supporters or so called life long Republicans now seem to believe that John McCain will loose the race.

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Vice-Presidential Debate Results

Now the Vice-Presidental Debate is over, how did the candidates do?

So many people had expected Sarah Palin to slip up and prove to the world on national TV that she was not a good running mate for John McCain. However, now as Alaska's governor, overcame expectations as 84 percent of people that watched the debate said she did better than they would have expected. It was said to be short of substance, but the republicans that support her ticket say that she did an excellent job. Vice President Debate watchers were polled and claim that Joe Biden did a better job selling his message. Fifty-three percent of these people say that Biden would most likely bring change to Washington, while only 42 percent say that Palin would do better to create change. Even though she did so well, only 46 percent claim she is qualifed to become President, while 87 percent say that Biden would most likely be qualified to become President. The video from the debate is immediately below..



Sarah Palin gave new hope to the McCain campaign. In the eyes of John McCain and the republican party, the night was a total success. It was obvious that she is a great speaker, as she did well in her only two speaking engagements since her nomination, and that was the night she accepted her nomination and last night in the debate with Joe Biden.
Nevertheless, the polls after the debate continued to fade for the McCain/Palin ticket. Tomorrow, the second debate between McCain and Obama will take place. If the McCain/Palin debate didn't make up some people's minds, then maybe this next debate will.

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Vice Presidential Debate - October 2, 2008

In just a few short hours, the Vice Presidential Nominees Sarah Palin and Joe Biden will take stage on location at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Even being just a vice-presidental debate, the outcome of the election can in a sense be decided, especially if Sarah Palin doesn't do well. But until it happens, noone can really say that she could not be a vice presidential candiate. She can actually give John McCain a shot in the arm and raise John McCain's ratings by a good performance. Many people claim that she lacks leadership, but being the maverick that John McCain is, he is staking his election on her ability to act as Vice President. She is an excellent debater, as proof when she won the Govornorship of Alaska. Her acceptance speech at the Republican Convention this year was also proof that she can handle her own. The question will be if she can answer questions accurately from Gwen Ifill, who is the moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" on PBS.
Joe Biden, on the other hand has his tasks set for the evening. He should be directing his comments against John McCain, as he knows him well and likewise, Sarah Palin should direct statements against Barack Obama. Whoever wins the Presidential election on November 4th, will automatically take along their running mate as vice-president. So this debate should be about national and foreign policy, and directed against the Presidential Candidates. We will just have to see if Sarah Palin can hold her own during this debate. If she does not, John McCain can and will be further criticized and more and more people will insist that she step down as his running mate. That would be a disaster for McCain, as he then would be admitting making a critical wrong decision in the election. Only time will tell.
After this Vice-Presidential debate, there will be two more Presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama, the 2nd debate on October 7th in Nashville, Tennessee, and the final debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Just a little over 4 weeks to go before the general election on November 4th, 2008.

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