Axelrod: Next election will be a 'titanic struggle '

Axelrod: Next election will be a 'titanic struggle ' By Daniel Strauss – 09/27/11 11:06 AM ET Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday that the next presidential election would be a "titanic struggle." "We don't have the wind at our backs this election," Axelrod said according to the Boston Globe while speaking at Saint Anselm College 's New Hampshire Institute of Politics. "We have the wind in our face because the American people have the wind in their faces. This is going to be a titanic struggle. "Axelrod added though that the elections won 't be a cakewalk for Republican presidential field, either." It's not going to be enough to simply point fingers of blame to try to lay on him responsibility for all America's ills without offering prescriptions for how to solve them, "Axelrod said. At the same event, Axelrod also criticized the Republican field for sticking too closely to the" Tea Party line "and refusing to embrace President Obama 's $ 447 billion American Jobs Act plan for job creation. The Obama administration has been touting the plan, which includes a combination of tax cuts and new government spending, as a proposal that Republicans and Democrats both should be willing to embrace. Democrats have accused Republicans of playing politics by not embracing the plan even though it offers a number of sticking points that GOPers have called for, including an extension of the employee payroll tax cut.