What McCain and Obama need to do to win the debate.

John McCain is down in the polls right now. It's not that his policies are actually worse than Obama, his economic policy has been said by many economists to be less detrimental to the budget deficit, as well as create more jobs. McCain can make an argument about the economy, and needs to. Most Americans think Obama's economic policy is better, but the facts can be argued.

For him to get this across, he needs to, quite frankly grow a pair and rip into Obama. His RNC speech was well received due to the ending, McCain needs to repeat that as he's down right now. It is a town hall format, which will help him.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama is up, but polls have a way of closing closer to the election. Plus, there is the scary possible 5 percent factor that some Obama internals talk about. What the factor is that some Americans are unwilling to admit that they will not vote for an African-American, this effect has been documented before as having a 5 percent swing. Plus, many of his supporters are students and African-Americans, which, although they may respond to polls, still some worry on whether or not they will turn out. For instance, 25,000 people were supposed to vote early in Ohio, only 4,000 people actually showed up.

Still, Obama has a decent lead, here's what he needs to do to keep it.

Mentioning McCain/Bush connections is probably the most obvious tactic. Regardless of the truthiness, it's a good connection to make for him. Secondly, Obama needs to continue to portray McCain as out of touch, and talk about all his new social programs, even if the country cannot afford it, he can still talk about them. Obama is friends with Warren Buffet, emphasizing that three times will certainly help too.