| Earmark | Bottom up | Job creation | Spread the wealth | Strategic fit |
| Trust | Senator / Senate | Let me be clear | Fiscal restraint | Look |
| Election | Science | 2008 BARACK OBAMA BINGO (free square) | War | Main Street |
| [Alternative] Energy | Relief for working families | Signs of recovery | Administration | Health Care |
| Strategy / Strategic | Climate Change | Fannie / Freddie | Change | $250,000 |
| Strategy / Strategic | Main Street | Reform | Senator / Senate | Inherited |
| Crisis | Bottom up | Wall Street | Unprecedented | Look |
| Benchmark | Accountable | 2008 BARACK OBAMA BINGO (free square) | Trust | Regulation[s] |
| Mortgage | Change | Middle Class | [Alternative] Energy | Education |
| Terrorists / Terrorism | Loophole[s] | Retirement | Afghanistan | Back from the brink |