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And a new day.
Update: I wrote this in the heat of the moment after midnight last night without checking the entry poll numbers. Josh Marshall points out that second-choicers seemed to go to Edwards. Not sure how extensive or accurate the entry polling was, but it does seem clear that I was wrong to write that the second-choicers went overwhelmingly to Obama.
Update: Other Klein smart, as usual, on why Obama’s speech was so good.
With a divided Congress still standing at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the annual White House budget isn’t a policy proposal destined for markup in the subcommittee rooms of the Capitol. It’s a statement of principle. And in an election year, it’s something more: Obama’s $3.8 trillion fiscal year 2013 budget, unveiled on Monday, marked the debut of his re-election platform. In among the bar charts and bullet-points was the President’s story about why he needs a second term.
