Reply #32: My personal opinion is that the Kool Kidz,

[Jane Austin]

that is the ones who want to be seen as More Analytical Than Thou and possibly smarter, too, don't want to be part of a faddish movement.

Obama is very appealing on a number of levels - he's young and smart and cool and a brilliant speaker. He seems to be pretty clean ethically and he's voted right on almost everything Dems care about except for funding the war - which all the other candidates have voted for, too.

He does have Rock-Star appeal, so there are going to be breathless groupies who will follow him anywhere. But that doesn't mean everyone who supports him is a groupie.

Generalizations along that line are insulting to me and others who like a lot more about him than lofty speechifying. And believe me I know as I've had friends who should know me better say I'm just being swept away by his glamor. (If you knew me, you'd howl!)

Anyway, I do think a lot of the folks on the net are image-conscious in their own way - they don't want anybody thinking they are part of some huge popular movement.

But that's just my opinion.