.... The president's political aides attribute the tightening of many races across the country to the Democrats' efforts to sharpen the contrast with their Tea Party-influenced Republican rivals—and play up the flood of money into GOP coffers from wealthy individuals and corporations.
(See also today's New York Times: Democrats Retain Edge in Spending on Campaigns)
"The messaging has been working," said one senior Obama adviser. "It has started over the last couple of months to reenergize Democrats, to present this election as a very clear choice about moving the country forward or taking it back to giving free rein to the special interests, to let them write the rules of the economy that brought it to the brink of disaster."
Atlas has more on the current message:
Notice the uptick: Obama's rhetoric is increasingly radical. Obama thinks he's back in some third world country where banana republic dictators steamroll over the little people and the fat cat corruptocrats rule. Not so fast, buddy.
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