Running out the clock

The voting is already underway in some states. This is one of the problems people should have with the McCain/Palin hide-and-seek campaign of dodging reporters and only doing select interviews. There are a lot of low-information voters out there, and some of them will be voting before a single debate is held. That is what is infuriating about McCain's proposal to delay the debates. It is a stalling tactic, and it may work.

Here is Amy Sullivan in Time magazine:

Taking Low Information Voting to New Extremes

McCain's let's-postpone-the-debate idea may not be a real possibility now that Obama has indicated he won't play ball. But here's a factor to consider with the proposal itself: by the time the next scheduled (or, as McCain would have it, "first") presidential debate takes place, 16 states will already be voting. That includes battlegrounds like Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

It's bad enough that voters in a half dozen states are casting ballots right now, before a single debate has been held and after only one opportunity to hear one of the vice-presidential candidates field questions from a reporter. It boggles the mind to think that almost one-third of the country could start voting before Obama and McCain have had the chance to engage directly with each other.

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