Who is winning the credibility battle on economic issues?
It’s hard to say. The polls will tell you that Obama is. Tonight really did boil down to traditional Republican versus Democrat arguments, where McCain was basically saying that Obama wants to spend too much, and Obama was saying that McCain wants to cut too much. So it really came down to, in some ways, the role of government that Republicans and Democrats have debated for a number of years. I actually thought that McCain held his own pretty well on the economy, certainly with the things that have transpired this week. Obama probably missed an opportunity, actually, at the beginning of the debate to attack him on that issue. I really kind of expected Obama to hit him (on McCain’s tactics this week) and he really didn’t. So I think in some ways, McCain came out a little less unscathed about the economy than he might have. Polls show that McCain has an advantage with voters when it comes to foreign policy issues. How well did he capitalize on this strength? Did Obama do enough to convin
