McCain

He said he was going to step up the attacks. The reason for that is because he ran out of his own talking points. Since day one, he seldom talks about what he's going to do. It's always about what needs to be done. "We've got to improve the education system." Or maybe "we're going to fix the education system." But Obama actually says how he plans to do it. His plans may not be the best, but at least he has some. Since McCain hasn't been very forthcoming on his plans, I can only assume he doesn't have any. Maybe he's going to rely on whatever Cabinet his party provides. I'd rather have a president who starts work on day one.

Obviously, he doesn't want to be dwelling on his lack of plans, so he attacks Obama whenever possible. I expect to see a lot of that in the debate.

EDIT: Not so bad on the attacks. They both made them, and McCain more of them, but it wasn't as nasty as I expected. One of the commentators afterwards said he expected more from McCain, but the other said that attacking isn't a very productive style in a town hall-style forum. Not only that, but maybe he's realizing the nastiness isn't winning him many votes from the undecided. We'll see what happens in the next week or two. And McCain has gotten better in laying out his actual plans.