Obama Defines Elections: Party That Caused Economic Meltdown vs. Party That's Fixing It
ERICA WERNER | 07/ 9/10 06:05 AM |
In Friday's address, Obama planned to call on Congress to expand a tax credit program for advanced energy manufacturing jobs. Eligible would be solar projects that Reid has been promoting heavily in Nevada as a way to capitalize on his state's scorching climate and cut down on pollution from coal.
Obama was to speak to an audience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, along with officials from a solar panel manufacturer called Amonix that's opening a new facility in Las Vegas with help from the tax credits.
Hours before Obama arrived in the Nevada on Thursday to hold a fundraiser for Reid, the Departments of Energy and Interior joined Reid in announcing a new "Solar Demonstration Zone" in Nevada where new solar technologies can be tested and developed.
The developments combined to underscore Reid's influence in bringing jobs and benefits to his state, a central theme of the Democratic leader's re-election campaign that's been undercut by Nevada's highest-in-the-nation unemployment figures.
At Thursday night's fundraiser at the Aria casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Obama gave voters some other reasons to elect Reid to a fifth term, saying he needed the senator's help in Washington.
The president cast the upcoming elections as a choice between the party he said caused the economic meltdown and the one that's fixing it, seizing on a populist, sharply partisan theme for the critical November midterms.
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