Why are Biden and Obama accentuating their personal story's of hard work, discipline, and self reliance?

Question

Why are Biden and Obama accentuating their personal story's of hard work, discipline, and self reliance?

Answer 1

Because millionaire Democrats earned theirs, millionaire Republicans didn't, and it needs to be taken from them and redistributed.

Answer 2

Because both actually have very decent family and moral values, which may come as a shock to Republicans...

Answer 3

I am sure it is for the same reason Mr. McCain is accentuating the fact that he is a veteran and was a POW.  

Answer 4

To appeal to Blue Collar workers.

Answer 5

They want the people to know who they are and where they came from. Because for some reason, Obama has been labeled an elitist.  

Answer 6

They are both frauds, trying anything to persuade voters to vote for them.

Answer 7

So simpletons in America don't get confused the next time they see a stupid republican ad with them and paris hilton in it and think they are the same type of people.

Answer 8

Because Republicans think all Democrats are lazy, and on welfare.

Answer 9

So that their elitism is not so obvious....

Answer 10

to fit in with every other candidate in the history of the idea of a republic...

Answer 11

Demonstration of and identification with Mainstream American ethics and values.  Labor creates wealth.  Recognition of constituents inspires political loyalty.  

These guys are good strategists.

Answer 12

Would you vote for a person who said. " I never worked an honest day in my life. I sat around the house, drinking beer and getting high. Everything i got was given to me and I didn't even have to show up at work"?

Answer 13

That approach counters the negative right-wing propaganda and it emphasizes the differences in backgrounds between Obama and Biden on one side, and McCain and Bush on the other side.  

Answer 14

For Biden, it's because, despite his long career in the Senate, he is still fairly unknown to the common man.

For Obama, McCain and other Republicans have branded him out of touch with middle America. By showing that he grew up in a middle class environment and worked hard for his success, he will be more 'in touch' with a majority of Americans.

Anyways, it's for the purpose of relating to the common man.

Answer 15

because it has to offset their extreame socialist views....