john mccain and barack obama

This town has debate fever and everyone wants a piece of the action:

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama debate tonight at Belmont University. Some 3-thousand members of the media are expected to cover the debate, which has created a regular carnival of causes around the city.

Phil Bredesen’s civility forum this afternoon sponsored by the Tennessee Business Roundtable and the Freedom Forum featuring both political and media bigwigs turned out some extremely enlightening discussion over the state of political discourse in the nation.

The factcheckers are on the job, but I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that both John McCain and Barack Obama mangled the truth to some extent. This was not a debate to change minds. It would have been much more interesting if they'd actually debated each other. Yawn.

From the Obama camp:

The bailout is going to fall on the Democrats, as predicted:

The Constitution Party’s candidate thanks Ron Paul for his endorsement of his candidacy:

Stacey Campfield (R-TN) and an unnamed Democratic legislator wonder what would happen should election night end in a 269-269 Electoral College tie for John McCain and Barack Obama:

John McCain and Barack Obama are actively campaigning in five battleground states: Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. According to a Rasmussen poll, the results look like this:

CO - McCain: 46% (49%) Obama: 49% (48%) Other: 2% Not Sure: 2%

I just finished listening to Obama's Democratic Convention speech again this morning. No matter what happens over the next few months, whether or not Barack Obama is elected as our next president, he should be chosen to stand up and talk to America a couple of times every year.