Obama’s General Election Travel Plans

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By Adam Nagourney

Looking for any more evidence that Senator Barack Obama is http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/politics/11strategy.html?ref=politics">shifting from the primary to the general election? Check out where Mr. Obama is planning to campaign over the next two weeks.

On Wednesday, he is headed to Michigan – and not to Detroit but to Macomb County, the county that has long been synonymous with so-called Reagan Democrats. Michigan is a state that aides to Senator John McCain, the likely Republican candidate, sees as highly competitive, given the number of blue-collar workers there and Mr. Obama’s difficulties in winning support from those voters in his contest with Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton.

In addition, Michigan is one of two states that held their primaries in defiance of Democratic Party rules, which meant that Mr. Obama did not campaign there, or build up an organization there.

And next week, Mr. Obama is spending three full days in the other state which held its primary in defiance of the Democratic Party – Florida. (He is also going tomorrow to another general election state, Missouri).

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1. Obama's job is to win over Hillary supporters and Republicans....

and he's moving forward to get it accomplished. I'm very proud to be one of his supporters.

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2. Me too. :)