Democratic Groups: Hey, Remember the 47 Percent Video?

There’s been something missing from the presidential campaign since last Wednesday’s debate in Denver: the 47 percent. Since President Obama’s underwhelming performance, his campaign has hammered Mitt Romney repeatedly, in stump speeches and television spot, on the sanctity of Big Bird. But the talking point that helped turn Obama’s post-convention bounce into what became an eight-point cushion has been AWOL. (That was the case during the debate, too.)

But in a new radio ad, AFSCME and the super-PAC Priorities USA, two leading Democratic outside groups, are trying to reprise the narrative, this time comparing Romney’s decidedly warmer debate rhetoric to his closed-doors ruminations on the makers and takers:

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