CORONADO, Calif. (AP) -- Not yet in the presidential race, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mitt Romney already are previewing the focus of their possible 2016 campaigns, competing over who's better able to boost paychecks for working Americans.
Their potential rivals for the Republican and Democratic nominations, Jeb Bush and Elizabeth Warren among them, have a similar populist message about wages and jobs for the middle class.
Bush, the former Florida governor, puts "rising wages" front and center on the website of the political committee that's essentially his campaign-in-waiting.
And Warren's populist message about wages and income inequality may be pushing Clinton from afar.
Presidential campaigns often become a proxy fights over the nation's economy. That's why others who are talking about a 2016 presidential campaign are staying close to an economic message, as well. Alabama, honoring MLK
