[SJackson]

The real campaign season starts with Labor Day, any contest that isn't close (10 point margin) by October 15th is functionally over. If Keyes is laboring under the illusion that nothing much happens until late October he might as well go home to Maryland now, if he isn't scoring near 40% in the polls by Oct 15th there's nothing that can happen in late Octobedr to make his campaign look vaguely respectable.

Please don’t post facts to a Keyes thread, folk are trying to stay on topic.

BTW, you’re right about there being no reason for Obama to debate, but I suspect he will both to cement relations with the press and defuse the issue for future campaigns. Noting his convention speech, and his profession, presuming he’s a lousy debater smacks of underestimating the opponent as well.

Given the nature of the accusations on these threads I think I’d leave God out of it.

[discostu]

I'm guessing weekday afternoon debates, preferably opposite Oprah, with just enough statewide TV and radio coverage to prove it happened and no national coverage. That way he can say he debated, but nobody will actually have watched.

I think the idea of God picking sides in a Senatorial campaign is almost as silly as the idea of God picking sides in a football game. But I've always thought that God's primary interaction with the goofy things humans obsess on, like politics, is to point and laugh. We provide proof everyday that God has a fine sense of humor.