Via Politico 44:

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt suggested to Luke Russert on MSNBC Monday that the campaign has no plans to rejigger its messaging, despite recent criticism of its tactics from within the Democratic party.

“Well, it will come as no surprise to you, Luke, we don’t believe the presidential elections are determined by the ups and downs of the weekly cable news cycle,” LaBolt said. “If they were, in 2008 we probably would have lost the campaign 25 to 50 times at some point during that campaign. The feeling around here has always been this was going to be a close and competitive election, given the historic challenges that our nation faced when the president came into office.”

Prominent Democratic pollsters Stanley Greenberg and Erica Seifert joined strategist James Carville to pen a memo last week recommending that the president change his message on the economy because it’s not resonating with voters.

LaBolt on Monday did not repeat the main talking point that drew the criticism — that the economy is improving. He focused instead on trying to lay out the choice between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney.