SCHMIDT: OBAMA “CHEERLEADING” WALL STREET CHAOS

Essential reading: McCain camp topper tells reporters on the candidate's plane en route to Cedar Rapids he thinks Obama and the Democrats are milking the economic crisis for political gain.

"I think a lot of Americans are going to be angry about that by virtue of the fact that what caused this is greed and avarice on Wall Street, incompetence and reckless oversight in Washington, and now the politics has entered into it, the who can take the most advantage of this."

Aides also touch on latest polls, media coverage, the surge, McCain's economic commission idea and more during Q&A. Read transcript here.