A couple of times yesterday on cable TV, I saw a clip of Obama, during a NC town hall, respond to a voter's question about how can win in November. The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" recounts his answer:

"I started this race as the complete underdog. I mean nobody thought that a black guy named Barack Obama was going to beat the best brand in Democratic politics," he told the crowd while answering a question from undecided voter Diana Allen, 39 years old, who said she would vote for the candidate she thought had the best chance of winning.

Once he became the frontrunner, Obama said his opponents piled on. "And the press is happy to oblige, so there was a kitchen sink strategy employed where they were throwing a whole bunch of stuff and we made some mistakes, some self-inflicted," he said. "Most recently obviously there's been this furor over the remarks of my former pastor which there's no doubt we took a hit on."

But despite those stumbles, he said the fact that he remains even in the polls with Hillary Clinton shows that his campaign is actually quite strong. "You know that folks are reaching when the big attack on me is I'm not wearing a flag pin," Obama said. "They're reaching. This is the best they can do."

Obama also said be believed Democrats would unify before the general election and that he would present winning arguments against expected Republican nominee John McCain on the war and the economy.

"So don't buy into this electability argument," he said. "Go with who you think best represents your vision of where America needs to go and if you do that I'm absolutely confident that that person will win."

The pundit reaction to the video clip was generally about how "tired" Obama looked.

The voter reaction?

And with that, Obama had swayed at least one undecided voter.

Allen, a lawyer for Cree, Inc., the company where Obama was visiting, turned to her colleague and said, "Now I'm going to have to vote for him."