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CBS has been the network that has concentrated on campaign features this fall. It took a day off. NBC had Pete Williams file a Where They Stand summary of the two candidates' platforms on selecting a Supreme Court nominee. ABC began its weeklong Battleground Bus Tour of midwestern swing states in Dayton. "No Republican, not one, has ever won the Presidency without winning Ohio," anchor Charles Gibson pointed out, accounting for John McCain's 30 visits to the state and Barack Obama's 23 since each clinched his party's nomination. How important is the collapse of the employment base to these rustbelt voters? Listen to John Heitman, professor at the University of Dayton: "Before World War II, 100,000 of 200,000 people who lived in the city of Dayton were directly tied to the economic fortunes of General Motors." Now that GM has closed its last Dayton factory, an SUV plant, its presence consists of "a handful of minor suppliers."
As for those Justices, NBC's Williams reckoned that Obama's nominees would likely "hold the Court's current line" while a McCain Presidency would "shift the Court decidedly to the right." Williams reeled off a quartet of rulings that would change were a McCain Justice to join the bench: gun control, affirmative action, the role of religion in the public square and abortion.
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