President Obama is up with a new, two-minute spot (I live in a stationary, not a swinging, state, so I hadn't seen it) that is more specific in just 23 words--"Governor Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, and fewer regulations on Wall Street, all of us will prosper"--than Romney has been in his entire strategic shift to pounding specificities (which, unoddly enough, you may have missed).
Even Politico seems impressed:
Obama's spot is as good a summation as any of the Democratic theory of the case that 2012 is a choice election, and of the economic contrast message Obama took up over the summer.
In related "spot" news, the Washington Post this morning makes an interesting note of the vast difference between what Obama and a super PAC must spend in line with federal law's discounted ad rates for only the actual candidates:
In one Ohio ad buy slated to run just before the election, for example, Obama is paying $125 for a spot that is costing a conservative super PAC $900.
That's more than a 7:1 material advantage for Obama, which of course helps to compensate for the opposing lop-sidedness of Romney's PAC thugs.