Ben Smith:

McCain didn’t talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn’t put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about Acorn!) this afternoon.

"There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves," Davis said, adding that McCain’s mortgage plan could be an "elixir" for the financial crisis.

"I can’t imagine a situation where on a daily basis the campaign would put out a statement about what the market was doing," he said. "It doesn’t meant that we don’t care and aren’t trying to do something about it."

The campaign, he said, shouldn’t become a "CNBC news show on the stock market." 

Problem for McCain’s campaign is that more folks care what’s being said on CNBC than Fox right now, the latter of which is carrying not just the real-time Dow on the corner of the screen but also an image of Bill Ayers.