Chris Matthews just made a really good point on MSNBC. Obama campaigned the last 6 weeks in Pennsylvania, the second-oldest state in the country after Florida. He has the best plan for Social Security among any of the candidates: raising the salary cap on Social Security payroll taxes above its current $97,000 a year. Yet Matthews never heard Obama mention his plan once while stumping in PA.
I'm sure Obama did, but I'm with Matthews: I never heard it. And it really would've sold in PA. These white, elderly middle-income voters who are Hillary's base in PA, could have been seriously cherry-picked by Obama, if he had turned up the heat on this issue, and the other economic issues that Hillary seems to have won on. When's the last time you heard him mention that Hillary voted for the credit card bankruptcy act, and he voted against it?
Again, I'm sure he has mentioned it, but he's hardly driving those issues. He is wasting valuable opportunities by not doing so, and it's costing him votes, and valuable time to take on John McCain.
