but how's it playing in duluth?

The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland sends a rather breathless report back from Berlin (he walks on water, his teeth are shiny, that sort of thing). Freedland concludes:

By common consent, tonight and the entire Obama week has been a huge success, generating priceless images for TV consumption back home and helping Obama cross the credibility gap — making it easier for Americans to imagine him as a player on the world stage.

Um, maybe. Though he might have mentioned one constituency who seem to be dissenting from this view: the American people. Obama has been drifting downwards in the polls for the last two weeks.