Obama did an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper today which is set to air tonight, and CNN has posted some excerpts.

This, in which he acknowledges that the Wright controversy has "shaken" him, and flatly says it reminded him that the odds of him getting elected are lower than for "conventional" candidates like Hillary, seems striking:

"In some ways this, this controversy has actually shaken me up a little bit and gotten me back into remembering that the odds of me getting elected have always been lower than some of the other conventional candidates," the Illinois senator told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive one-on-one interview....

"If I was just running the textbook campaign -- doing the conventional thing, I probably wasn't going to win because Senator Clinton was going to be much more capable of doing that than I would be," he said. "We had tremendous success -- and I think we were starting to get a little comfortable and conventional right before Texas and Ohio."

Also note Obama's comment today on the situations in Florida and Michigan...

"I want the Michigan delegation and the Florida delegation to be seated. And however the Democratic National Committee determines we can get that done, I'm happy to abide by those rules."

Obama has said this before. But today, he's saying it on the same day that the DNC released a statement saying that the current proposal for a Michigan revote -- which the Obama camp hasn't assented to -- in fact would get it done within its rules.

Late Update: Some commenters are noting that Obama was referring here to the seating of the delegates, rather than to a revote, which I concede is a fair point. There isn't a direct contradiction here, but nonetheless, the DNC today did say that the current revote plan -- which would get the delegation sat -- would be within their rules, and Obama has not assented to it.