A recent study by the moderate think tank Third Way shows 40 percent of independents could swing either way. But an important caveat: only 15 percent would pick a candidate “focusing on income inequality,” while 80 percent would choose a candidate “focusing on economic growth and opportunity.”

While all is fair in love and war and politics, the blame for the disparity in pay between millionaires on Wall Street and the Joneses on Main Street, which has increased under Obama, is placed on a prior president.

Not on Bill Clinton, under whose watch the pay gap between CEOs and the average worker skyrocketed to a record 525-to-1 ratio.

But on George W. Bush, even though the income gap in his two terms was nearly halved after increasing five-fold in the previous decade.