Obama has a plan to help the middle class. President-elect Barack Obama wants his No. 2 to head up a special task force designed to find ways to hike the standard of living for middle-class and working families in America. “Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working- and middle-class families,” Biden said in a statement. “Is the number of these families growing? Are they prospering?” The White House Task Force on Working Families will concentrate on improving education and training for working Americans as well as protecting incomes and retirement security of the middle class, The Washington Post reports. The task force will join forces with labor and business leaders. “My administration will be absolutely committed to the future of America’s middle-class and working families,” Obama said in a statement. “They will be front and center every day in our work in the White House, and this task force will be one vehicle we will use to ensure that we never forget that commitment.”

Biden calls GOP tactics “dangerous.”

Sen. Joe Biden, stumping for what could be the nation’s first African-American president, acknowledged that some folks are having a hard time with that possibility. “Undecided people are having a difficult time just culturally making the change, making the move for the first African-American president in the history of the United States of America,” the Democratic vice-presidential nominee said at a San Francisco fundraiser Saturday. “So we need to respond. We need to respond at the moment, immediately, not wait, not hang around, not assume any of this won’t stick.”  He added that Republican attacks on Obama’s character are “dangerous.” “I mean, this is dangerous stuff these guys are doing,” he said. “… [H]aving these rallies where people are showing up saying, you know, the things they’re saying – I don’t even want to repeat them – it’s not a healthy thing.” Biden added that the automated GOP calls – called robo calls – which describe Obama as having “worked closely” with “domestic terrorist Bill Ayers,” Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Frederick telling volunteers to tie Obama to Osama bin Laden, and speakers at Republican rallies referring to Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama are “on the edge” of inciting people who he says “are on the edge,” and could threaten to do harm to the Democratic presidential contender.

Who do you like in the Biden-Palin battle tonight?

What can we expect tonight when the Republican and Democratic vice presidential candidates face off in the only debate before Election Day?  Will Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R ) reveal her “barracuda” tendencies?  Will Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) be able to remain gaffe free for the night?