I agree with Oldfatguy [below]. The campaigns consist of pipe dreams from Obama.To make good on his promises, he must get out of Asia. Increasing our forces in Afghanistan will only increase the number massacred.
McCain has resorted to negative attacks spiced with a bump and grind show. He would do better if he made his announcements on YouPorn.

Most of these prescriptions are to make America competitive on the world scene.
Universal Health Care: A healthy population can produce goods and services. With 53 millions uninsured, the USA has a Third World health system. Developed countries have universal care that costs half the US version.
Free Collage Tuition: Innovation and technical progress now come from East Asia. The brightest students receive tuition etc. Unhampered by college costs, the students reimburse the society through higher taxes paid.
Universal national service works fine in Israel. The young people not in the military can open careers in teaching or in government service i.e. improving the infrastructure.
"Free" job training (even for criminals). This is less costly than a continued life in crime.
"Free" child care and "universal" preschool. This could permit single welfare mothers to work.
The other suggestions aimed at putting band-aids on past societal ills i.e. banks, stock market and real estate need far stronger measures than these.
Essentially, the public has a choice of mending some of their ways [Dems] or more of the same [GOP].
If history is any teacher, great civilizations have crumbled rather than meeting new challenges.

I do belief that the "average" voter is way far beyond being dumbed down, more on the order of absolute stupidity. As examples, the return to a democrat majority in the House, and most blatant, the continuous re-election of Kennedy and Kerry by the brain-dead morons of Massachussetts.