The Obama campaign does an excellent job of organizing its base of support and keeping people focussed and motivated. People generally think of the GOP as the party of discipline, marching in lockstep behind its candidate. This cycle, though, if the GOP has been the Wehrmacht of American politics, it’s just run up against the Democrat Red Army - a proverbial horde of young, inexperienced and somewhat rowdy campaign combatants held together by an almost fanatical belief in their cause and the leader at their helm.

So the comparisons aren’t flattering. Whatever. Barack Obama is (more…)