… Democratic strategists have been arguing for some time that the key to the November elections is to make the economy the focus of their political message. Through polling and focus groups, they’ve come away believing that the contrast between the two parties is best drawn on economic issues and on policies that affect the middle class. …
Casting Republicans as insensitive to the broad middle class is a page straight out of the Obama 2012 playbook. It worked for the president, in part because he had an ideal foil in former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney — a wealthy businessman who too often played into the stereotype of an out-of-touch rich guy. Whether that strategy translates into the state-by-state contests that will determine who controls the Senate after November is quite a different question. CONT.
Dan Balz, Washington Post