Emerging Memes?

Though I'm still not entirely sure of the difference between memes and themes, I believe I've observed the emergence of a two new ones and the reinforcing of another.  In a New York Times article by Mark Landler, President Obama promotes the prevailing notion that Gov. Romney's comments at a Florida private fundraiser prove that Romney is "out of touch" with the life situations of many Americans.  It seems that keeping this notion alive has become part of the campaign strategy for the Obama camp.

In the same article, in response to a challenge from the anchors of the town hall-type meeting at which he was speaking, Obama accepted part of the responsibility for not achieving the immigration reform he had promised 4 years ago, but also blamed "partisan gridlock" in Congress and the courts.
The President followed up with, "You can't change Washington from the inside.  You can only change it from the outside," meaning that change will only come as a result of pressure put on legislators by the voting populace.

Romney seized on the President's remarks, asserting that, with the above comments Obama "Went from the president of change to the president who can't get change."

I guess I'm predicting that we will see an expansion of the claims by the Dems that Obama would have fulfilled more of his 2008 campaign promises had he not been hampered by GOP law makers and claims by the Romney camp that voters should remove Obama from office because he is ineffectual.