Breathe Easy, Everyone - Obama Is Now Courting the Most Critical Constituency

Everyone rest easy - we can all breathe a deep sigh of relief, as the Obama campaign aggressively moves to court the CEO vote, according to today's Wall Street Journal:

Jason Furman, Barack Obama's economic-policy director, is spending this weekend in the tony Hamptons outside New York, as will many top Wall Street executives. But he won't be relaxing. Instead he will be explaining the Democrat's tax policies in small business gatherings and celebrity-studded fund-raisers. Another top Obama adviser, University of Chicago Professor Austan Goolsbee, just returned from Jackson Hole, Wyo., to chat up other business executives and big donors. The campaign for the CEO vote is heating up. With increasing attention on the economy, the presidential candidates are trying to wrap themselves in business's embrace by wooing some of the best-known chief executives.

Whew! I know I'm really relieved, because millionaire CEOs are the most important constituency that will decide the election in places in working-class bastions like Ohio.

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