[reasonisfaith]

I believe Obama’s defeat will be due to the fact that among Obama supporters are huge numbers of mainstream, swing voters who do not have the cult-like worship of him, and that Obama’s support from these voters can only decrease between now and November.

This dropoff of voters from the Obama bandwagon is inevitable because of the following factors: Obama’s poor judgment about Iraq, his troop snub, Wright, Ayers, the “bitter clingers” comment, the huge question about islam, the huge question about support from terrorists and murderers, the arrogance of media support for Obama, and whatever else I haven’t mentioned or is yet to come.

[wastedpotential]

Obama has “cult like worship” from a large group of the democratic base (albeit, not all). They will work for him and his candidacy tirelessly because they “believe” in him (why, I don’t know).

The religious right felt that way about Bush in 2000 and 2004, giving passionate support in dollars, hours and votes in both elections. Who feels that way about McCain?

[bethtopaz]

Susan Estrich had an article on Real Clear Politics yesterday htmland among the 400+ comments (and several others from Democrats), I found these:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/arrogance_wont_win_the_electio.

Baffled Democrat Wrote:

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> I am a college professor, as far to the left as
> you can imagine and what Obama is doing begins to
> horrify me. If you watch any - any - documentary
> on Hitler, you bound to notice frightening and
> striking similarities between the raise of Hitler
> and Obama campaing — to say the least- : the lack
> of self-irony, huge deliberately staged rallies,
> fear of debates, unability to engage in rational
> criticsm, reliance on charisma and rhetoric,
> branding (logo, seal, etc), fainting women,
> religious iconography, tighly controlled
> messianistic self-image, hope/change/unity
> platitudes, bildungroman autobiography,
> indoctrinated youths followers, the use of new
> media in crafting and controlling the message,
> etc. Electing democrat is extremely importan to
> me, but it begins to dawn on me as well that
> democracy is not guaranteed and it might be better
> to put up with McCain for four years than have
> someone who uses Hitler’s spectacular strategies
> to manufacture power and gravitas.

I am not a history major but Europe before 1939 was my concentration in college. I agree with you completely. I am a tree hugging, non meat eating, pro gay and lesbian rights, etc etc and I find Obama and his cult of personality really really creepy!
And they attack, crazily attack any one who questions him as a racist, or a Republican or an hysterical female who can kiss her right to her own body goodbye.
I’m married to a black man and I’ve marched for abortion rights in DC. By what measure can I be called a racist? Or a republican? I don’t fear Black men...BARACK OBAMA is SIMPLY NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT!

[Just another Joe]

So basically what you're saying is that NEITHER of the candidates have a base and more people are scared of Obomba than McCain.

Is that correct?