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Here’s the link to Time’s article on the Democratic nominee for President.

The article provides a revealing look at Obama’s general election strategy–which will include visits to NON-primary states in the coming weeks:

The superdelegate push has already begun. Campaign strategist David Axelrod said on the flight to Chicago that the message to them was, “Read the newspapers.” He said the campaign expected more supers to announce in coming days, and that they would be reaching out to them. One North Carolina undecided superdelegate said last week before the vote that he would go with his district, and the Obama camp expects several in that state and elsewhere to come forward in the next few days.
Obama has already begun politely talking past Clinton. In his victory speech in Raleigh he had gentle, even respectful things to say, surprising even his own staffers by appearing to concede Indiana just as the race was beginning to close. He even solicitously implied Clinton might still win the nomination. But being nice to a competitor is almost worse than attacking them, since it implies they no longer really pose a threat. His attacks on McCain, by contrast, have grown sharper. “We know what’s coming,” from the Republicans, he said. “I’m not naive, we’ve already seen it.” And he again hammered McCain for carrying on what he called George W. Bush’s “failed” policies.

That, of course, is only one part of the campaign’s acting as if it’s already engaged in a general election. Obama will travel to non-primary states, says Axelrod. It will mobilize its nationwide grassroots organization to start targeting McCain. And, says Axelrod, “We’re going to spend time addressing broader issues,” such as foreign and national security matters and (though Axelrod and communications aide Robert Gibbs denied it Tuesday) beginning the search for a vice presidential candidate.