Obama needs to send out women (and sometimes men from smaller states and rural areas) as surrogates. Charges of sexism and elitism do not need to distract from the Democrats’ actual arguments.

Examples: Hillary Clinton, Anita Dunn, Claire McCaskill, Brian Schweitzer, Jon Tester

Please feel free to leave other suggestions in comments.

The key to swinging Ohio is to effectively use Gov. Strickland in the southern part of the state, where he is from. Obama doesn't have to win the rural vote in southern Ohio but he needs to keep t close. Anything under 10 points and Obama wins the state. He will take the big cities just like in the primaries, but he can't afford to lose this area like he did.

I think that Senator Obama and Senator McCain should do the town halls that Senator McCain spoke of earlier. I don't think it's a sign of giving in to him just because it was his idea. Also Senator Obama destroys Senator McCain on the issues.

I would like to see a schedule on www.barackobama.com that has a schedule of where his high-profile surrogates are going to be. Casual supporters are much more likely to attend a rally with Bill Clinton or other surrogates if they don't have to dig through a hundred "get out the vote" events in their area to discover that Clinton (or others) will be in their area.

Show everyone what President Bush should have done back when Katrina battered our gulf states. President Bush ate cake (Happy Birthday, Senator McCain) and praised incompetent officials ("heckuva job, Brownie") while gulf states drowned instead of acting like a real President and going immediately to the scene and leading the relief.