Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO speaking to all working class Americans.

McCain and Palin like to talk about "Joe Six Pack," to use Palin's term, but Obama actually knows what working and middle class Americans go through.

Let me add a quote from the conservative newspaper, the Stockton Record, on this point:

Republicans have tried repeatedly to paint Obama as an elitist. Hardly. He grew up in a single-parent home and, by the sheer force of his desire and cerebral horsepower, ended up at Harvard Law School, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

He could have gone for the money. He didn't. He went to Chicago, where he worked to give a voice to those who didn't have one.

That's hardly the mark of an elitist.

He hasn't lost touch with regular people, whereas McCain doesn't even know how many homes he owns.