Who the hell is “Joe the Plumber”?  The candidates have tried to put a personal face on the election and that face belongs to Joe.

Mercifully tonite debate is the last one.  As usuual it was about as exciting as watching flies mate.  This debate was watched because everyone was waiting to see if McCain took the bait and touched on Ayers.  He did.  He bombed.  Obama handled the question with calmness and put it to bed, probably not for Palin, but rather for anyone with half a brain.

Obama was calm, as I have said and very collected.  He did not hit the ball out of the park, but he did not strike out.  He was on track with his policies and he stated them very openly and calmly.  He never stumnbled that I saw.  He did let McCain get a zinger in when he said that if Obama wanted to run against Bush he should have run 4 years ago.  Not bad.  And will make it to ALL the MSM for the day, it will be the line.

Now on to McCain, he took on Obama’s policies at every turn, which you would expect, but I did not hear a whole lot of talk about his policies, at least which would be clear to good ole Joe.  At times he looked frustrated and angry. At least he actuaslly looked at Obama this time.  Also, McCain never mentioned the middle class by name for the third debate.

As I suspected the debate was McCain being more lively and Obama being more cautious.  Since he leads in the polls, he did not want to jeopardize that lead.  Alrighty then, you want the winner and the loser.  McCain tried, but he could not rattle Obama.  Obama just did the old “bob and weave”.  McCain gets some points for his engagement of Obama, but in the end Obama was the winner by a slim margin.  Why?  He did not make a mistake.