This stuff can get a little wonky on the stump. But in the end, should a Democrat be elected president in 2008, it could determine everything from the value of the dollar to whether Americans get universal health care coverage. It's the economic blueprint that Hillary Clinton advisors and former Clinton administration Treasury secretary Robert Rubin and Rubin deputy Roger Altman are developing -- heavy on free trade and balanced budgets, lighter on protecting workers from global competition and deficit-financing domestic social programs. A story this week in the Politico profiles the establishment Democratic economic policy exiles-in-waiting and the challenges they face from "Capitol Hill, where the more populist wing of the Democratic Party appears to be ascendant," and presidential candidates such as John Edwards, the self-proclaimed "'populist' in the race, siding with organized labor and its skepticism of unfettered free trade."