Back when Hillary was still in the race Obama was against letting the Michigan and Florida delegates vote (the states had their delegate votes taken from them by the DNC as punishment for moving their primary dates to earlier dates).  Mostly because he hadn’t campaigned there, assuming that their votes wouldn’t count, and the states were likely to go for Hillary at the convention. 

Obama took a lot of flak over that given the “every vote counts” activism from his resume (Obama worked closely with ACORN, America’s largest voter registration organization and also the nation’s largest perpetrator of voter registration fraud) at the time, but when he was running neck and neck with Hillary he just couldn’t afford the edge Michigan and Florida would have given her.

But now that Hillary is out?  Obama wants the state’s delegates to count.

Which is, you know, big of him.  After the fact.

More likely Obama is making a plea to moderate Democrats in those states who are thinking about voting McCain after he snubbed them earlier in the election cycle.  Though, frankly, this little flip-flop does more to make him look like the sort of cynical political operative he claims he isn’t than ingratiate him with moderate swing-state voters.