Small Businesses Emerge as Big Campaign Issue for Democrats and Republicans

By Lori Montgomery and Michael D. Shear



Washington Post Staff Writers
 
 
 As President Obama and his adversaries look for winning themes in the run-up to the November congressional election, both sides are noisily clamoring to prove their support for a critical constituency: America's small-business owners.

At the White House, the president's advisers are urging Democrats to portray Republicans as supporters of big corporations unfriendly to the interests of the small, family-owned enterprise. On Wednesday, as he visited a sub shop in Edison, N.J., Obama chided the GOP for blocking his proposal to expand tax breaks for small businesses and make it easier for them to borrow money.

"Helping small businesses, cutting taxes, making credit available. This is as American as apple pie," Obama said. "Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. They are central to our identity as a nation. They are going to lead this recovery."

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