You are correct, of course, that many Obama supporters are not cult followers, not sheeple.  Many of them are among my family and friends, and they are thinking, politically active people.  I am concerned by how many of them ought to be brighter than to buy into so many media memes in this campaign -- i.e., "the Clintons are racists" -- so I see a lot of emotionalism motivating them as well.  

Although I dont want to seriously push any cult meme, I think on a basic level there are two different approaches taken by the two campaigns. Obama is putting himself forward as a leader of a poltical movement - ala his community organizer roots. Thats why he speaks, instinctivly, in the languate of popular empowerment. Hillary, on the other hand, has based her campaign on HER qualifications, her mastery of policy, her experience. Its all about her, and her superiority as a potential president, rather than about you, about us, about leading a movement of empowered people.

This was one of the leading states to supply WWII, our troops and those of our allies around the world, and we're still proud of it here -- where you see Rosie posters and t-shirts in stores, on walls, and worn.  More than a million women here worked in our factories turned to over to manufacture of troop supplies, and many thousands of them still are here -- as are their daughters and daughters' daughters, darn proud of those women, too.  (Btw, we just lost one of the greats of that group, an AA woman who led the fight for them to get into the unions here, too -- see the obit on jsonline.com last week for Nellie Wilson.  But we have her oral history for posterity in many books, articles, etc; see wisconsinhistory.org.)