John McCain called for the scheduled presidential debate to be postponed so he could go back to Washington and work on the bailout plan.
At first, this move struck me as shrewd politically. Why not reinforce the image of McCain as a hard worker and Obama as a grandstanding speaker with little qualification to respond to a crisis. But apparently the nation feels differently. A poll done by [SurveyUSA](http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportEmail.aspx?g=54d651a7-a62b-4420-bb32-9dd6b2df8c02) shows only 14 percent of Americans believe the campaigns should be suspended.
Obama perhaps anticipated this response and urged the debates to go on.
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