Zombie Voters and Fortune Cookies

Who are Barack Obama's supporters? Picture an old 1950s era b&w Zombie movie. The Undead rise from their graves, begin lurching forward, arms outstretched, eyes vacant, all murmuring eerily in unison, "Change, change, change…" Except Obama's Zombies don't rise from graves. They emerge from high schools and colleges and Hollywood soundstages and media centers. Much has been made of Obama's appeal to American youth. His hook is emotion and vague idealism, which works well on people loaded with emotion and vague idealism but little in the way of experience and genuine knowledge. A generation that barely discerns between Bambi and actual rutting deer can't be expected to distinguish charisma from substance.

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