Useful report by Monica Langley in the Wall Street Journal today on Obama road-testing some themes for Thursday:
"The single most important thing I have to make clear is the choice we have in November between the same failed policy of the last eight years for the middle class and the new agenda to boost income for Americans and help families who are struggling," he said in a brief interview with The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. "I will make that contrast very clearly."...
"In Missouri, and other battleground states, Republican ads say I would raise taxes… but my plan would provide three times more tax relief to the middle class," he said. "I don't think people realize that, and I hope that message will be absorbed by the electorate."
Pretty standard Democratic stuff. But maybe that's what's called for. Don't be a messiah figure, just be a guy who'll do Democratic things with the economy: that's probably enough to win barring other cataclysms.
