Barack Obama's campaign plans to push back aggressively against what it sees as John McCain's distortions of his economic policies and hammer home the message that every blue-collar household will get a $1,000 tax cut if he is elected.

"This is going to be a fight over who is going to be best for the average American and who will get the economy growing again in a way that benefits everyone, and not just a wealthy, well-connected few," said Austan Goolsbee, a senior adviser to Mr Obama.