EXACTLY!
That is precisely the way Hussein wants it to stay. Hussein knows that he only needs to 'run out the clock' now--and this financial mess is working like a charm for him.
The American people have the attention span of the last Seinfeld Rerun.
Sure McCain needs to fight, but Political history has always proved that the best time to go negative and release dirt is the last 10 days of the Election.
Gore did this and erased a 6 to 8 point Bush lead in 2000.
You go hard too soon ,and people forget.