People are starting to ask some interesting questions of the new Democratic Party front runner, Barack Obama. Some are raising issues of whether the Obama phenomenon is a cult.
Right. That's what some Clinton partisans would like you to believe. They need something, anything, to explain why Hillary is sucking wind in the polls and in the recent primary elections to the point of having to shuffle her campaign staff and the pessimistic views suggesting that she needs to make a stand in Ohio and Texas (and I'd argue well before that) in order to preserve her chance to win the nomination.
There's nothing cultish about people flocking to a politician who appears articulate and charismatic and whose name isn't Clinton. Even though Obama's own supporters can't name a single accomplishment (and will often simply point to how smart he sounds or that he's for change), the fact that he isn't a Clinton is more than sufficient to gain a significant number of voters in this primary season.
I'd argue that his support is quite thin, and that whatever popularity he's gained from having supporters like Obama Girl will be offset by the fact that they aren't all that dedicated to actually doing what must be done to win the election for Obama - voting for their candidate.
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