Obama: Man Of The People

Barack Obama cleaned up with two big labor endorsements, the SEIU and the UFCW. Both are really great service employee unions who are using a new model of organizing to increase their membership. The United Food and Commercial Workers in particular are very big and powerful in Ohio. Also, Texas populist Jim Hightower endorsed Obama, and he has a pretty significant base of progressives in that state.

I would say that yesterday's speech on the economy paid off, wouldn't you?

(I love the stuff on regulating the credit card industry, by the way.)