Last Chance for McCain

With less than a month until Election Day, it’s now or never for John McCain. Tonight’s debate, writes John Dickerson at Slate, “is McCain's last big chance to reach a wide national audience without the media filter.” McCain certainly has a lot to juggle: He needs to attack Obama without seeming like a bully while simultaneously firming up his own positions on the economy. “For McCain,” Dickerson writes, “Wednesday's debate comes with a degree of difficulty perhaps beyond the capacity of human achievement.”