The electorate is waking up

Dave Winer has some excellent comments on what has happened in the 2008 campaign thus far:

What the electorate needs is to hire someone to lead us for the four years between elections. It needs someone who will ground our collective behavior in something resembling reality, so we deal with the problems that are collectively in front of us:

1. The honor and prestige of our country (the equivalent of goodwill for companies, settle the wars we started, accept that we have to protect against terrorism, stop hyping it in terms of conventional warfare, that’s insulting).
2. The integrity of our homes (everything from disaster response to changing behavior on a global level to respond to global warming).
3. Caring for ourselves (health, education, protecting the Constitution).