Making the cover of Rolling Stone is probably not what Barack Obama needs right now. He’s got the media, college student, and urban elite votes pretty much locked up. His problem? He’s losing lunchbucket Democrats to Hillary Clinton.

Clinton should run a Ronald Reagan campaign against Obama–attack the media (who wrote her off and don’t care about Middle America unless there is a primary there), play up her patriotic sentiments (she apparently was the only Democrat who thought the bombing of a military recruitment office in Times Square was worthy of an immediate statement), and become “the working stiff’s candidate.” In fact, if she was a little quicker on her feet, she could poke fun at Michelle Obama’s strange claim that she and her husband struggled to pay off student loans (they had a combined income in the comfy six figures at the time). There’s no New York or California left on the primary calendar. But there are still Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, and maybe even Michigan. And in those states the Safeway Democrats, as David Brooks has described them, vastly outnumber the Whole Foods Democrats.