| Infrastructure | Signs of recovery | Taxes / Taxpayers / Tax Plan | Inherited | Earmark |
| Wall Street | Education | Regulation[s] | Relief for working families | $250,000 |
| Afghanistan | Main Street | 2008 BARACK OBAMA BINGO (free square) | China | Bottom up |
| Empower (or empowerment) | Unprecedented | Out of the loop | Back from the brink | Retirement |
| Make no mistake | Debt | Administration | Win-win | Accountable |
| Win-win | Back from the brink | Loophole[s] | Fiscal restraint | Science |
| Mindset | Benchmark | Economy / Economic | Campaign | Administration |
| Terrorists / Terrorism | War | 2008 BARACK OBAMA BINGO (free square) | Free market | China |
| Middle Class | Regulation[s] | Strategic fit | Security | $250,000 |
| Touch base | Bipartisan | Make no mistake | 9/11 | Election |