Though usually outspoken on the environment, Mr. Gore has been careful not to stress this theme too heavily when he is in the Rust Belt, where it is not popular with manufacturing workers.
Just two weeks ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Alan Krueger, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, stressed this theme: If you look at the decade before the recession, the U.S. economy was not creating enough jobs, particularly not enough middle class jobs, and we were losing manufacturing jobs at an alarming rate even before the recession.
His State of the Union address stressed this theme, which has also run through all his recent presidential and campaign speeches.
A fan of alliteration and iteration, she devised slogans for the campaign, first describing Mr. Bush as "a reformer with results," then stressing the theme of "real plans for real people".
Obama, too, is walking a fine line as he seeks to firmly establish core support on the "empathetic" left while stressing the theme of "hard work and responsibility" so that everyone else can hear him.
In stressing the themes of exclusion and inequality, and in pointing out the awkward fact that these phenomena can result in fatalities, the Pope surely knew he would raise some hackles, and he did.
The voir dire not only allows lawyers to detect bias, but also gives them a free opportunity to begin stressing the themes of their cases during questioning, essentially priming the witnesses for the arguments they are about to hear at trial.
Nevertheless, a key feature of all interviews was their essentially open nature, allowing each participant to narrate their own story in their own way, stressing the themes and perspectives they thought were pertinent to their own experience.
"What this proposal does is stress the theme that tax cuts have the same effect as spending," said Edward C. Kleinbard, a tax professor at the University of Southern California and former chief of staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
Most of the candidates talked Friday about the need for democracy in Pakistan, and no one has stressed that theme more frequently than President Bush himself.
