>So his campaign is already reversed about 170 degrees, closing in on 180 - he's opposing his own bill, he's reversed his position on just about nine of ten things that made him look like he may blow the party off. So he looks just equally falling into the same old track ("as campaign draweth near, start pandering to the right"), just like Obama did ("as campaign draweth near, start pandering to the right").
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>The other day someone posted a link to Wikipedia's comparison tables... and Ralph Nader looks better than ever.

Yup. Both candidates try to move to the center (not the right) before the general election. That's politics. What might be interesting going forward is how much each candidate is painted as a phony because of it. Obama is in the lesser position because in his primary run he was nowhere near a centrist so every position change he makes rings a lot more loudly than McCain. OTOH, McCain not only has to appear to be a moderate but also bring back those conservations he's alienated over the years.