Meghan O'Rourke is clearly channeling the supporters of Adlai Stevenson when she writes:

"She animated the cultish, irrational mob impulse in her supporters."

If you want to understand why a sizeable number of Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama, all you have to do is read this obnoxious screed. Characterizing the other candidate's supporters as "cultish" and subject to an "irrational mob impulse" is not my idea of the best way to actually win over votes you desperately need if you're to have any hope of winning the general election.

I suggest that Meghan should have read Jeff Greenfield's prescient article on George Orwell and why British Socialism never took off with working men and women in Britain. As one of the few Clinton supporters who can actually read, I'll precis it for you: the British working class did not reject socialism because they had a problem with the tenets of socialism, but rather, they rejected socialism because they could not stand British socialists themselves. They found the average British socialist to be an officious, arrogant snob who looked down on them. As Obama supporters are "the best and the brightest" surely you must be able to see that. I believe Shaw made the same point in a different context in the preface to "Saint Joan." Typically, people don't like to hear themselves mocked as racists, dummies, or both.

I'm guessing there are many other dolts such as myself who you will find out in the days and months ahead are too stupid to join forces with the vanguard of humanity, the forces of light, the Obama campaign, the Change, but what can you expect from morons like us

Good luck, and keep it up.