Anyone watching? Here's the Wallace (Fox) take:
"He made it very clear he was not some left ... liberal and he had been mischaracterized as such," Wallace said. "I think this was an effort to sort of restore or regain the brand that he had some months ago, when he was saying there wasn't a Republican solution, or a Democratic solution. It was a new politics and it needed to be a coalition."
The 'center' strategy reflects a deep-seated belief by Obama and his strategists that the way to win the GE will be to move toward the middle voters. Obama's went a round-about way of securing the hardcore partisan base that he would need to win the secure the nomination. His post-PA strategy assumes he's got it in the bag, and its time to make the move to the general. The intention is partly overt, in reaching out to the right (and appeasing the media that he knows where he went wrong), but the overt action is to distance from (maybe even piss off) the hardcores from the left enough that they stop co-opting the Obama brand.
Now, maybe all the above is just utter bullshit, and Wallace made a complete distortion of what happened, or maybe the headfake was the Obama campaign telling TPM that Obama was going there "to take Fox on". Not having drunken a silo of Obama koolaid, I'm pretty confident that it's an accurate take by Wallace. And besides, I doubt there are that many hardcore partisans, the ones that keep dreaming Obama's movement has anything to do with a fighting partisan position, will abandon him over this anytime soon, they've still got Clinton around to hate on.
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