My debate predictions...

[mckeown1128]

It will be boring.

Obama will obviously win.

McCain will play the role of sweet old folksy grandpa.

The media will find some insignificant detail to obsess over...while the whole time calling it a tie.

Fox News will bill it as a pure McCain victory from top to bottom (It'll cherry pick a poll the next day to claim that McCain won {just like the luntz group was their justification for saying McCain won the last debate})

We win.... unless Obama hits a white woman on stage while setting a bomb with Ayers... nothing will change the momentum. A tie, a boring debate, a nice fest, etc means nothing changes for McCain...and he needs something to change tonight.

(McCain will not go attack-dog-ish because it's a townhall setup.... that would be further political suicide....even though he is desperate... he won't try anything that stupid.

[katty]

1. are they going to face each other? relaxed looking sit down?

[mckeown1128]

6. They prob won't be facing eachother...

most likely stools facing an audience...I could have sworn that I heard something about marked floor space.

[elocs]

2. Yeah, it probably will be boring. Obama is clearly winning this fight,

so he has no need to get into a brawl with McCain. In keeping with the boxing analogy, I believe that McCain is so desperate that he will do or say something that could really finish him off.

[Raschel]

3. Agreed.

McCain just might step in it. Otherwise, boring.

Do you think McCain will mention POW tonite?

[elocs]

4. Oh, why not? He is, after all, a maverick. We never get tired of hearing about either of those. nt

[Stephist]

5. Here Is My Prediction

Here is what I think will really happen. They debate tonight. The discussion over the debate carries over until tomorrow and then come Friday McCain is still down by 6-9 points and this debate is forgotten. In other words Nothing is going to happen to change the game tonight unless Mccain loses his shit and he's down by 15 next week.

[msallied]

7. There is nothing sweet or folksy about John McCain.

He's a glaring, evil old fool and I think his performance tonight will be about the same, if not more angry and irritable given recent events, than it was in the first debate. He simply will not be able to help himself.

That being said, I do agree that it will not be much of a game changer. Obama will glide through this thing and he will either maintain his lead or increase it a tick or two.

[BlueIdaho]

8. The debate won't move the needle

McCain needs yet another real "game changer" unfortunately America is tired of all of his other game changers so, short of him insisting on pistol duel at ten paces this will be a non-event. McCain won't crash and burn, Obama won't crash and burn, neither man will score an out and out victory and the pundits will talk out of their asses all night long about shit they don't really understand. America may turn the debate on but they won't really watch it and after 15 - 20 minutes they'll start channel hopping. No matter what anyone says American's don't really have the intellect and attention span to focus on 90 continuous minutes of talking heads.

The danger is that everyone will be waiting for someone else to tell them "who won."