Tonight I thought I’d take the night off and get an early night (ok earlyish) but I’m still awake and not live blogging. My fingers are itching to write on this…

02.12 John McCain got the Irish Corporate Tax Rate wrong again. It’s actually 12.5 percent Senator, one of the few things that Brian Lenihan, Minister for Finance and cruelty to older people, class sizes, car parking spaces etc., did not put up yesterday.

I maybe back to this post if I stay up any longer but it’s like watching paint dry at the moment and CNN is down on NTL so there are none of those heartbeat type monitors showing public reaction to the candidates drivel to keep me amused!

2.41 I’m still up, they’ve done the mudslinging bits – well McCain has tried and Obama has explained. Now they are onto the VP’s and their suitability. Hope the fact checkers are looking at the ways in which Sarah Palin has not supported ‘special needs’ children in her time as Mayor and Governor. McCain has rolled out Palin’s great work on the issue – she has a child with a disability – but she has no track record in working in the area or being particularly generous.

Someone called Joe the Plumber featured an awful lot during tonights debate. Not sure if McCain has modelled it on Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Toledo, Ohio who was on Fox News yesterday after meeting Obama and not being convinced by him. But John McCain has been talking to Joe all through the Debate – I think Joe Wurzelbacher is going to be a bit busy the next while and it won’t be at plumbing!