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The Daily Caller: Biden pitches education subsidies to scared students, parents
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The White House has produced a new campaign-style video highlighting Voce President Joe Biden’s low-key education policy pitches in three swing states.
The video was principally shot at Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach, Florida, where Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan road-tested their 2012 message to parents and students worried about paying for college.
The faces in the video are mostly white middle-class mothers. They’re critical to Obama’s reelection plans, partly because they’re swing voters who have moved away from Obama since 2008.
“College education is almost an actual prerequisite for a ticket to the middle class… the incredible cost of college education is crushing hundreds of thousands of parents,” Biden says in the video, most of which was taken from the Dec. 8 event.
Since then, he has given similar presentations to audiences and TV cameras in Ohio and Pennsylvania, which are two of five swing states that he has said he will focus on during the 2012 race.
The topic may become a major theme of President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
“This is a national conversation — they’re still a lot of hard work ahead of us,” Duncan says in the video.
