All the speeches are over and Obama is now gonna have to become all things to all people.  PLus he has got to offer the working class an alternative.

This is an article from Harold Myerson of the Washington Post:

Barack Obama has the problem from hell. The very voters he needs to win this election, the white working class that has been descending into post-industrial post-prosperity for a couple of decades and the past eight years in particular, are angry. American finance and corporations have abandoned them for cheaper climes, and they blame the elites of both parties for their woes. Obama’s challenge is to become a voice for that anger without looking like an angry black man.

With Barack Obama heading the Democratic ticket and plainly having trouble with working-class whites, Greenberg returned to Macomb in July for a new generation of polling and focus groups. Macomb’s memories of Detroit’s racial convulsions in the ’60s and ’70s have faded somewhat, he found, but race is still a key hurdle for many residents. Their economic anxiety has skyrocketed – understandably enough, with the auto industry in shambles and not much coming along to take its place. Indeed, their No. 1 concern in Greenberg’s survey (undertaken for the Democracy Corps) is the offshoring of jobs, with rising gas, food and health-care costs running a close second. Their ideal presidential candidate, Greenberg says, would be an “outsider, middle-class” senator who expresses their anger at their betrayal by America’s economic and political elites.

This is hardly Obama’s only challenge, but it’s a crucial one. He surely needs to talk about his work organizing on behalf of displaced steelworkers in Chicago. And in case the depth of Obama’s challenge isn’t clear yet, Greenberg has one more factoid to vex Democrats: The second choice of the Nader voters in his survey is John McCain. Something for Barack Obama to think about as he prepares to address the nation.