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Wonkbook’s Number of the Day: 3.5 million. That’s the number of 20-page glossy policy booklets the Obama campaign will mail to voters in swing states. The platform is called “The New Economic Patriotism,” and it leads with specific policy proposals for small-business, manufacturing, green jobs, and education. Though assembled for the first time as a second-term plan, most of these ideas have been drawn from previous speeches and legislative proposals. Nevertheless, with only 13 days before Election Day, the move represents a last-minute grounding of the re-election message in policy specifics for the proposed second term.
Top story: The Obama campaign goes specific — though not always intentionally — on policy
His hand forced after an interview transcript was released, Obama goes into detail on his second-term agenda. ”President Obama, criticized as failing to offer a vision for a potential second term, has begun sketching out his agenda with greater specificity in recent days, including a pledge to solve the nation's in-trac-table budget problems within ‘the first six months.’ In an interview made public Wednesday, Obama said he would pursue a ‘grand bargain’ with Republicans to tame the national debt and would quickly follow that with a push to overhaul the nation's immigration laws…With polls in battleground states showing the race tightening to a virtual dead heat, Obama appears to be shifting away from a strategy dominated by attacks on his opponent to one that includes a rationale for skeptical voters to send him back to the White House for another four years. The Obama campaign is distributing glossy brochures that repackage his proposals to hire more teachers, promote manufacturing and raise taxes on the wealthy as ‘The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security.’” Lori Montgomery and Peter Wallsten in The Washington Post.
What, exactly, Obama said to the Des Moines Register: ”‘I am absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I've been offering to the Republicans for a very long time, which is $2.50 worth of [spending] cuts for every dollar in [tax revenue increases], and work to reduce the costs of our health care programs…The second thing I'm confident we'll get done next year is immigration reform…So assume that you get those two things done in the first year, and we're implementing Wall Street reform, Obamacare turns out not to have been the scary monster that the other side has painted. Now we're in a position where we can start on some things that really historically have not been ideological. We can start looking at a serious corporate tax reform agenda that's revenue-neutral but lowers rates and broadens the base.’” Ezra Klein in The Washington Post.
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