12:48 am ET

Positives:

• Emotional and specific talking about his family.
• Some great lines, well delivered, including one about helping people instead of saving the planet.
• Nice impassioned close.

Negatives:

• Did not blow away the media filter, meaning the next 48 hours of coverage of the speech won’t be super boffo.
• Too much heavy-handed negativity about President Obama, not enough more-sadness-than-in-anger finesse.
• Unconvincing, box-checking, boilerplate middle class economic anecdotes.
• Too light and general on what he would actually do as president.