General movement
I’ve been away for a few days and will be back properly tomorrow with some thoughts on the campaign to come, the dumb things that both sides are saying and the whole VP question. But for the meantime, I’ll point you to Obama’s second general election ad which shows how Obama is trying to both define himself as someone who understands the average voter and isn’t a standard-issue big government liberal.
We’re still waiting for Obama’s dramatic general election pivot---his father’s day speech shows how powerful Obama could be on education if that was where he chose to buck party orthodoxy—but he is already making far more centrist noises than he was during the primary campaign. Obama is dominating news coverage at the moment and if he can colonise the centre ground over the next few months then he is going to make it very hard for McCain to compete.