This report from Biden’s event today (received via email) is interesting inasmuch as it highlights a campaign slogan that is about as appealing as “The recession would’ve been worse without us.”

Biden said Democrats need to tell voters “Don’t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. The Republican Tea Party is the alternative.”
Biden mentioned Kasich’s ties to Wall Street through his tenure at Lehman Brothers and said “I like John,” but called most of Kasich’s plans misguided. Biden said President Obama has created 763,000 private sector jobs since taking office two years ago, “more than the previous administration did in eight years.”
Biden hammered home Strickland’s ability to balance Ohio’s budget while still investing in public education.
Biden said he has campaigned for many candidates, but there is no one that has “more character” than Strickland and said the Ohio governor knows what it is like to struggle, referencing Strickland’s hardships on the farm growing up.
Biden said the country’s “most important” governor’s race was going to be a close one. He said Strickland’s ability to lead Ohio through the “greatest recession” in history shows his character and the governor has helped rescue a state from policies of the previous Republican administration.