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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Two weeks before Election Day, and now he’s the man with a plan.
Fresh off the heels of his third and final debate against Mitt Romney, President Obama at a campaign rally yesterday brandished a copy of a new brochure repackaging his plans for the next four years — and Republicans immediately ripped it as warmed-over rehash.
The Obama campaign called it a “full-scale, multiplatform organizational effort” for use in direct mail to voters and at campaign events, with plans to print 3.5 million copies.
A Romney official mocked it as a “glossy panic button.”
The plan features smiling photos of Obama, with sections on “Building an economy from the middle class out,” “Reviving American manufacturing,” and “Putting YOU in charge of your health care.”
“Unlike Mitt Romney, I’m actually proud to talk about what’s in it,” Obama said. “And by the way, the math in my plan adds up.”
Obama adviser David Axelrod admitted that much of the plan isn’t new and merely compiles what Obama has been “running on and talking about for months in written form.”
The Romney camp is planning its own outreach efforts on his plan for the nation — in the form of a 30-minute infomercial, Fox News reported. Obama employed the same tactic in 2008.
With the presidential debates behind him, Obama jumped out of the gate with more hits on his rival and another defense of his own commander-in-chief credentials.
“Last night [in the third debate], he [Romney] was all over the map. Did you notice that?” Obama asked, using the same dismissive tone he employed at times Monday night.
“Governor Romney’s foreign policy has been wrong and reckless,” Obama told a cheering crowd of about 11,000 at a tennis center in Delray Beach, near where the candidates clashed Monday.
National polls yesterday continued to show Romney holding leads that he began to build coming out of the first debate on Oct. 3. Gallup had Romney up 51-46 percent, and Rasmussen had him leading 50-46.
Romney jetted to Colorado and Nevada on a western swing, exuding an air of confidence in an effort to keep his momentum going.
“These debates have supercharged our campaign,” he said. “That’s why his campaign is taking on water, and our campaign is full speed ahead . . . His campaign is slipping, and ours is gaining so much steam.”
MTV announced it’s set to air a live 30-minute interview with President Obama Friday at 5 p.m. MTV said it also invited Romney for a similar sitdown, but he has yet to respond.