- John McCain seemed a little desperate, although some people might not have picked up on it you could tell he was being far more tactical in his responses and to me it was evident that he's looked at the recent polls. Moreover, I think he was really reaching in a lot of things he said and it's quite obvious he's now desperate to separate himself from Bush more than ever. Personally I think it might be a little too late for that because more often than not, his record shows that he's been along side Bush and this administration
- Even with McCain's despair being relatively obvious I don't really feel Obama capitalized on it much, but he did have two glaring moments that really made me laugh: First when responding to Mr. McCain's "I was hurt by the accusations made by your supporters/ads/etc." and Mr. Obama responded "I don't think America really cares about our hurt feelings" and at no point offered an apology or "repudiation" as Mr. McCain wanted and to me that was great. Second was during the same conversation when Mr. McCain brought up his relationship(s) with the "terrorist" and the group who was basically committing voter fraud. His response was lucid, it was confident and more importantly believable. I can't say if it were true or not because I haven't looked into the financing but most people won't anyway.
- Some things that stuck out about Mr. McCain though were not very positive in my view. Not only did he blatantly ignore the aforementioned explanation and repeat exactly what he said prior to it, immediately after but he also repeatedly talked over Obama and out of turn. It was stupid, petty, and quite frankly disrespectful which is exactly what he was whining about 10 minutes earlier.
- The fact McCain said he was open to federal funding for stem cell research may have really hurt him amongst the Evangelical vote, that could play a huge factor in the outcome of this election. If there was anything Bush truly capitalized on in 04 that wasn't the war, it was the Evangelical vote with his stance(s) on abortion, stem-cells, and gay marriage. As stupid and frivolous as these things are in the grand scheme of the Presidency they are huge to one of the biggest voting populations the conservative base has. Losing those votes could cost him the election.
But now it's down to the last stretch with the election under a month away. We'll see how it all plays out.
