Talk of "Making it in America" has exploded on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, particularly among the Democrats who feel severely threatened by the imminent November elections.   Fortune calls the new "Make it in America" initiative an "agenda born from a poll." That poll was commissioned by the Alliance for American Manufacturing and conducted by pollsters Mark Mellman and Whit Ayers.   At last week's Netroots Nation 2010 in Las Vegas, Speaker Pelosi dedicated a sizeable chunk of her high-tech question and answer session with the conference attendees to the importance of making things in America and investing in job creation as well as bringing outsourced jobs back.  Fortune says of the new agenda:  

With their manufacturing agenda, Democrats can skip the internal stimulus versus deficit-cutting debate altogether. The party is holding close its plans for the entire legislative package -- which they plan to roll out week by week until lawmakers quit Washington for the campaign trail in October. But so far, it appears the measures will fall into one of two categories: bills that won't pass the Senate, and bills that wouldn't much matter if they did. Democrats kicked off the campaign last week by passing the "U.S. Manufacturing Enhancement Act" -- a mundane vehicle for tariff breaks that the party spiffed up with a new name to fit the messaging push. On tap for this week: "The National Manufacturing Strategy Act," directing the President to create a manufacturing strategy every four years; "The End the Trade Deficit Act," creating a commission to develop strategies to reduce the trade deficit; and "The Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act," requiring the Commerce Secretary to advise clean-energy outfits.

We know, however, that a solid manufacturing policy that will help to spur job growth should not be put in place to win votes, but rather to keep the American economy from spiraling deeper into despair.  Read more here, see the full results of the poll, watch Pelosi's comments or view a short video on the poll.