[SMARTY]

If you mean by ‘answers’ “Personal Conviction” (that old fashioned virtue) then, yes ... he had the answers ahead of time. What mature adult, who's spent a lifetime in public service would NOT have a few things worked out by now? All his answers are a reflection of his mental furniture, the stuff he thinks about daily and lives with.

[CedarDave]

If you mean by ‘answers’ “Personal Conviction” (that old fashioned virtue) then, yes ... he had the answers ahead of time. What mature adult, who's spent a lifetime in public service would NOT have a few things worked out by now? All his answers are a reflection of his mental furniture, the stuff he thinks about daily and lives with.

McCain has been doing townhall meetings all during this campaign and before. No doubt he has been asked every question in every way possible. So it is both his personal life experiences plus his being previously familiar with those types of questions that made his answers come so quickly, so easily and so clearly.