James Forsyth James Forsyth

Rooting Obama in the American middle class

Tonight’s message is going to be all about Obama and the economy. The Democrats want to paint Obama as a tribune of the middle class and as a member of it; they want to reduce the sense of otherness about him, what Mark Penn called his ‘lack of American roots.’  This is a crucial task, if they can’t do this then you have to expect the undecideds to break heavily for McCain which given the current closeness of the race would be enough to put him in the White House.

In the security queue we got talking to one of tonight’s featured speakers, Tom Balanoff, a Union official from Chicago who is getting a few minutes in cable primetime to describe Obama’s community work there. His job is to tie Obama’s work among communities gutted by the closure of steel mills to current economic concerns.

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