President Barack Obama will take the stage at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, tailoring his speech to focus on the economy and job security in his bid for reelection.

According to the Associated Press, the theme to Obama's speech will be promise, emphasizing how he has kept those made at the beginning of his presidency to help make the lives of the American people better. A campaign video released Thursday previewed these promises, pairing his pledges with the achievements made during his time in office.

The speech will also tackle the government's role to ensure fairness and consumer protection, financial stability restored through the wealthy paying more taxes and establishing compromise between both parties.

The president's speech will largely focus on the economy, as it has been the defining issue of Obama's presidency. Obama will lay out a specific economic policy reform, portraying the election as a choice between two economic outcomes. Obama will convey how his policies would establish equal economic opportunity for all, while Romney's ideas would reestablish the trickle-down effect that has hindered the economy in the past.

The president follows the well-received speech of former President Bill Clinton, and is expected to elaborate on the issues he discussed. Clinton's speech answered a question consistently asked by the Republican party: Are we better off now than we were four years ago?

"No president - not me or anyone before me - no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years," said Clinton. "But conditions are improving, and if you'll renew the president's contract you will feel it," he said.

In laying out exactly how to rebuild the middle class and lift the country out of the recession, Obama is likely to echo Clinton's words and ask for more time to achieve these goals.

Although Obama's speech comes just one night before the latest jobs report is released, analysts are unclear as to how big of a role this will play in his address. Due to a longstanding practice within the system, the president and a group of U.S. officials have access to the report the Thursday before the official release. While the executive branch is not supposed to comment on the report until one hour post-release, the Wall Street Journal said the president could tweak his adjectives in describing the economy depending on the report results.

Obama's senior adviser Davide Plouffe confirmed the president speech would lay out the direction the country needs to go economically, but warned this year's speech would have little effect on the polls.

"We've always believed that there's very little elasticity in the election," said Plouffe. "You're not going to see big bounces in this election. For the next 61 days, it's going to remain tight as a tick."

While Obama strives to remind voters how important their votes are to this election, the GOP targeted the president's supporters. Early Thursday morning, the party released a new ad asking voters to reconsider Obama's contributions to the economic turnaround. The ad, titled "The Breakup," shows a woman hammering Obama for spending too much time on the golf course and courting celebrities instead of cutting back on spending and attending the jobs council.

Additional things to watch out for on the final night of the convention include Vice President Joe Biden's speech and former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords' lead off to the Pledge of Allegiance.

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